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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

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Do we want a wiki (or similar) alongside Q&A?

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In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages, and other resources. Articles, like questions, use tags, so searching for a tag would find them alongside questions. Articles, unlike questions, do not have answers, though they do have comments.

You can see articles in use on the Meta blog and on Cooking's recipes.

On Some Other site, the only options for sharing information about a topic are tag wikis (not very visible) and self-answered questions. There's nothing wrong with self-answered questions, but sometimes you have information you want to share and have to fabricate a question to support that answer, and that can be challenging.

Does this community want to have a category to hold articles, whether a wiki model or something else?

I'm not advocating one way or the other. What the community is doing now seems to be working fine; there's no need to change anything. New tools enable other options, so I want to make sure folks know about the option. If people are interested in pursuing it there's more discussion that should happen to work out the model (and name the category).

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meriton‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Can you elaborate why writing a question asking for the information you want to share "can be difficult"? Off hand, I don't see the difficulty. In particular, if the information is relevant to somebody, one should be able to describe the circumstance under which it is useful, should one not?

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@meriton sorry, I probably should have used more qualifiers there. I've seen self-answered questions, both here and elsewhere, that got comments criticizing the question. When you already know the answer, it's easier to leave critical information out of the question. And I've seen complaints (mainly elsewhere) from people who resented having to create the question just to share info. I'm happy to ask and self-answer or to write an article; doesn't bother me either way. Just sharing options.

jrh‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago

I appreciate that you're thinking about selfie Q/A which is probably honestly the only kind of Q I'll ever ask, with sufficient "back door" methods you can kind of find the answer to anything (disassembly, look at library source code, etc.) well enough to get past the issue, though it might not be the "ideal" answer. I think the idea of articles is interesting, I'd like to read more about the details of it as it develops.