I’m working on incorporating the ideas discussed at Framing idea for introducing newcomers to concept of public goods - #4 by wolftune into this intro page, and I’m struggling a bit to capture all of the details in a way that is appropriately succinct. @wolftune I know that communicating the fuzziness of the public goods is an important takeaway that you want newcomers to understand, but as I’m writing it out I feel the need to emphasize that as far as first introductions go, we will have to sacrifice some nuance for the sake of basic comprehensibility; in other words, I think my priority should be communicating a basic understanding of what “public good” means, before throwing in all of these other examples. That isn’t at all to say that breaking down those nuances and complexities aren’t worthwhile, nor is it to say that some of that discussion shouldn’t be included here, I just think that as far as this ‘Introduction’ goes, we don’t need to get that deep into it yet.
Right now my thinking is that structurally the ‘public goods’ section of the intro page will go basically like this: 1. Introduce the litmus test (with the chart) –> 2. introduce one simple example (I’m thinking maybe Wikipedia? I want something that passes pretty straightforwardly, where someone could read it and pretty much immediately be like “ok yeah that makes sense”) –> 3. introduce one more complex/fuzzy example (public radio?), and then all of the other details and nuances previously discussed, including more complex and fuzzy examples, should be included on the separate wiki page dedicated to public goods, which would be hyperlinked. I’ll have another draft published shortly but just thought I would mention that here in case others have thoughts.