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Do we want a wiki (or similar) alongside Q&A?
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).
I think the framing of this question (and the prior discussion) is wrong, and I think that conditions have evolved since …
9mo ago
There are a few ways to understand "wiki". 1. Like wikipedia - an interlinked web of articles in a standardized forma …
9mo ago
I hear the walk-before-we-run argument. I think this would be a good thing to try once we reach running speed, though. …
3y ago
Please no. I had a bad experience of SO's failed and cancelled "Documentation" project. I raised the same concerns on th …
3y ago
I am not categorically opposed, but I currently don't see a use case for articles. For one, wikis already exist. What …
3y ago
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I am not categorically opposed, but I currently don't see a use case for articles.
For one, wikis already exist. What would be the benefit of hosting our own rather than participating on Wikipedia? After all, Wikipedia has a very mature software and policies for this very thing. It also has a much higher reach thanks to its impeccable google ranking.
Also, at least at the current maturity level of the implemenation, self-answered questions seem to have some important advantages over articles:
- Having to write a question makes it easier to tell what that article is about, allowing readers to quickly assess whether it is relevant to them.
- If other people think they can write a better article, they can.
In summary, I don't currently see a usecase, and would leave this feature disabled until we do.
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