Questions tagged [community-wiki]
Community Wiki is a flag that can be applied to answers (and sometimes questions) which lowers the barrier for editing and prevents any rep gain/loss from voting.
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When *should* a question be converted to a Community-Wiki?
I guess I'm still confused about Community-Wiki Questions, and there seems to be some conflicting information out there.
As background, I've answered a number of questions based on a common "root ...
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What to do if I find a question for my problem, but I have different thing to say? Why is editing the old question bad? [duplicate]
The questions What should I do if there is a question already made for my problem but has never been answered? (duplicate) and What can you do when the question you want to ask is a duplicate? don't ...
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Welcome to Stack Overflow! -1 [duplicate]
This is not a duplicate of Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late (N.ed: since 2014). It's a constructive board for considering three banal constructive points, and eventually their positive ...
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Why can't I uncheck the community wiki option without moderator assistance?
When I click on community wiki check, it warns me that the community wiki option cannot be unchecked without the assistance of the moderators. Why is this rule there?
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Why isn’t “community-wiki” showing up in tag search?
I see on Stack Exchange Linguistics that I could post an answer and tick the box “make community wiki”.
But if I search “community-wiki” in the tag search in lefthand-side menu, there is no result for ...
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Canonical question for TypeError Cannot [call method / read property / set property] of null in Google Apps Script
Tl;Dr: In the last few days three community members are working around the tag wiki of google-apps-script. The goal is to have a "FAQ". This question is specific to make a FAQ about few ...
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What makes this a community wiki? [duplicate]
What's special with this question? Why is it a wiki? I've read through this, but it didn't really help me understand.
Yeah, I've recently answered to that question and got 1 upvote, so it's not a big ...
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The 'posts edited' counter can be inaccurate? in the very specific case of multiple edits to the same CW post. Bug or intended?
Recently I edited a Community Wiki post to add an alternate solution (a fairly major edit). Then I noticed that I'd misspelled the other contributor's name, so I edited it again to fix this error (a ...
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I flagged my question to make it a community wiki, and the flag apparently does not "require their intervention"
I flagged a question of mine with a moderator flag, following the advice in Make already posted question community wiki. I used the text:
I'd like to make this question a community wiki as I seem to ...
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Is it legitimate to mark (almost) all of your answers as "community wiki"?
I am wondering if it is legitimate for a user to provide all (or almost all) of their answers as "community wiki"?
Here's one user I found - DeepDave-MT who has been marking almost all of ...
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Is there an easy way to turn all my answers into community wiki?
For personal reasons, I would like to distance myself from SO and consequently want to turn all my answers into Community Wiki (CW).
Doing that manually takes a long time so I'm wondering if there is ...
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Trophy floating in space
On this answer to "Why does GCC allocate more stack memory than needed?", there's a trophy icon (that's supposed to be immediately to the right of usernames) just floating in space:
My ...
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Flagging comments that are just links to DB Fiddle as no longer needed and community answers
Over recent weeks, I've encountered a user that has recently been just posting links to DB Fiddle in the comments, often without context. From a user perspective the comments are just:
dbfiddle.uk/…
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Would a question with multiple Q&A's for common beginner errors be appropriate?
There are a number of simple errors that beginners frequently make in many different languages. Examples include:
Using a loop to calculate a result, and putting the print statement to show the ...
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Ask/answer date for community wiki posts should always be shown in the "owner" (rightmost) user card/user info
I just noticed that the "asked" and "answered" datetimes for Community Wiki questions:
(from .NET: bool vs enum as a method parameter)
And answers:
(from How to loop through ...
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