One thing I've noticed is that a lot of people new to the forum have many similar questions. Often, the topics have already been covered in previous discussions, but it's hard to find them, the information goes out of date, and even if you do find relevant information, you need to parse it out of an old discussion. From the perspective of someone responding to questions, I started to feel a hesitance to reply to some posts when I feel like I've already replied about that topic, or it's been covered recently by somebody else - even though the poster doesn't know that and it's no fault of theirs.
For that reason I thought it would be great if there was a central knowledge-base we could build up. Not to replace the forum, but as a useful repository to link to for common issues. Even better if it's editable by anyone, to make it a community effort. Information can (theoretically) be written once, and kept up to date by others, benefiting everyone who subsequently reads it.
So I created https://retirewiki.jp/. I'm hoping it can become a useful English-language repository of information for people living long-term and retiring in Japan.
This is my first time running a wiki. Please be tolerant if there are technical issues 
For the time being, I guess I'll be the sole or main contributor, but it's a wiki so anybody interested please sign up
. Especially people who can write, as I definitely can't. 
Right now, it's a clean slate. The great thing about a wiki is that it's editable - so nothing has to be perfect. It's more helpful to get some incomplete information up, and improve it later, than write the perfect article from the start.For both quality control and my own sanity against an army of spambots, I've made it by application only for now. I know that's not in the spirit of a wiki. Maybe if it becomes successful, the servers can be upgraded, and a moderator community could keep spam in check, allowing it to be opened up. But in the mean time, please send me a PM here on the forum, or email me as per the instructions on the wiki if you'd like to join. The only requirements are that you live in Japan, are not signing up to self-promote, and generally behave well.
edit: typos
edit2: Renamed thread as it's more of a latest updates than an announcement thread now.
