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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 ...
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#2: Post edited
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Monica Cellio
·
2023-06-21T03:28:08Z (over 1 year ago)
We have wiki articles now.
In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages[^1], 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](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/30) and on [Cooking's recipes](https://cooking.codidact.com/categories/29).
- 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).
[^1]: We don't yet have the ability to designate posts as "anyone can edit", so these posts would still require suggested edits and approvals until people gain the ability to directly edit.
- 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](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/30) and on [Cooking's recipes](https://cooking.codidact.com/categories/29).
- 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).
#1: Initial revision
by
Monica Cellio
·
2020-09-24T02:54:55Z (about 4 years ago)
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[^1], 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](https://meta.codidact.com/categories/30) and on [Cooking's recipes](https://cooking.codidact.com/categories/29). 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). [^1]: We don't yet have the ability to designate posts as "anyone can edit", so these posts would still require suggested edits and approvals until people gain the ability to directly edit.