This is a start, but it suffers from the same problem that all of the wikis, spreadsheets, archives, and alternative interfaces do -- how do people find it in the first place?
But _this_ is the problem I see the Hacker News wiki should solve. Maintaining a wiki about all the subjects that get posted here would quickly lead to madness. However, maintaining a wiki related to all the meta information the site generates (such as pointing to previous attempts to hide the points associated with comments) would be extremely valuable.
However, the only way this problem gets truly solved is if we can get pg to add a link to a wiki or something from the site.