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What are “Community Wiki” posts?

I have posted an answer to the question: "Which programming languages can be used to develop in Android?"

The answer is here: Which programming languages can be used to develop in Android?

As it is a regular post, I have also got +195 points for the 18 upvotes and 15 for accepted answer, but now it is showing as "Community wiki".

What's the reason behind that? Any rule?

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  • No wonder many highly voted answers are cw on stackoverflow. I always had thought some users here really dont care about rep and they just graciously and willingly make it cw.. Now I know its not :)
    – nawfal
    Commented Jan 15, 2013 at 20:08

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Your 12th edit made it so automatically, see the revisions.

Note that this feature has since been removed and editing a question or an answer can no longer convert it to Community Wiki. For more information about Community Wiki posts, please see the FAQ.

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    So why didn't it happen on the 8th edit? Is that info out of date or do some edits not count?
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Aug 9, 2010 at 12:41
  • @Martin Smith: as the * note states, the actual behavior of SO is subject to change without notice, and may well have done so since this was last updated...
    – Tobias Kienzler
    Commented Aug 9, 2010 at 12:47
  • Yes I read that as well. I suppose either way the information is incomplete or out of date but if anyone can confirm that the limit is now 12 that would be useful to know.
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Aug 9, 2010 at 13:06
  • @Martin: Edits in a short (five minute?) widow are treated as one by the system. That is, their edit comments are merged, they "editted <time> ago" bit shows only the first time from the clusters, and (I believe) they count as one edit for CW bookkeeping.
    – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten
    Commented Aug 9, 2010 at 16:03
  • @Martin Smith Ya exactly...why didn't it happen on the 8th edit ??
    – Paresh Mayani
    Commented Aug 10, 2010 at 5:07
  • @Tobias Kienzler you have told that "An answer posted to a Community Wiki question will also be Community Wiki." then check out my question -> stackoverflow.com/questions/3405695/… , here y didnt it marked as "Community wiki post"?????????
    – Paresh Mayani
    Commented Aug 10, 2010 at 5:10
  • @Paresh Mayani: because you turned the question CW at 13:02 (see revision) but posted the answer at 13:00. When a question is turned CW, the answers remain unchanged unless a mod turns everything CW. You have to manually turn your answer into CW if you want.
    – Tobias Kienzler
    Commented Aug 10, 2010 at 7:11
  • @dmckee: those edits are not even kept track of, i.e. they won't show up as different revisions
    – Tobias Kienzler
    Commented Aug 10, 2010 at 7:11
  • @IlmariKaronen Thanks for the update!
    – Tobias Kienzler
    Commented Aug 20, 2021 at 6:22

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