Linked Questions
318 questions linked to/from What are "Community Wiki" posts?
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Old usernames stick to Community Wiki posts
On a whim the other day, I changed my meta name from Lord Torgamus to Popular Demand. I just noticed that the old name has "stuck" to the author tag of a Community Wiki question I asked before the ...
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Suggested edit should be allowed to improve an explanation
I think the suggested edit mechanism is really a mess.
If you want to improve an explanation or add some tips to an answer it is not possible. Because edits should correct grammar or format. Some say ...
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How to choose between several incomplete answers?
If I asked a question (namely this one), and the solution I end up using is a combination of some of the answers, and another answer explains why it is correct,
How to choose the answer to accept?
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Should the community wiki police be shut down?
Read me first: What are “Community Wiki” posts on Stack Overflow?
Some times I post things that are border line community wiki, like this question: Are there any C# open source log viewers? which ...
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Question asked by same person (and answered) on different site - how should it be answered
At this question (and a number of others with similar tags), a SE question has been answered elsewhere on a domain-specific non-SE Q&A site. Indeed, the same user acknowledges posting both places ...
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Help develop the site and community knowledge base in your language
I think everyone agrees that it is great to have a lot of technology Q&A. In this way, anyone can quickly understand how to use a technology. The Stack Exchange engine is a quite complicated tool ...
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What is and how do you visit the community wiki [duplicate]
I have never used the community wiki and just want to know what it is and how I get onto it.
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I don't like to scroll sideways to read embedded code. Any solution?
I have a wide screen like 70% of the people, still the Stack Overflow site has a small resolution support and any embedded code scroll sideways. Is there any settings that can resolved that ? (...
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What is the reason behind auto convertion to Community Wiki after 5-10 edits? [closed]
I have this answer to this post that gets a steady stream of upvotes. Due to the fact that more and more users actually upvote the answer (and maybe like it), I continually monitor it, reading it ...
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agree/disagree button on meta or upvote/downvote effects based on tags
I just got rid of a question ban, after doing some stupid stuff when I just got on meta. I asked a question which got closed because it was a dupe of a whole lot of other questions. After that, I ...
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How do I avoid becoming depressed by downvotes?
I am much better at discussing a person's problem with them real time and recommending a solution than doing this online.The format at stackoverflow is very much forum-based, (i.e. not real time), and ...
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Why are there non-CW answers under this CW question?
What are the hidden features of Stack Exchange?
Since this question is a CW, all answers are supposed to be CW, too. However it looks like something went wrong here and here.
Why???
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Reputation history stuck at yesterday after association bonus on Stack Overflow
After I got my association bonus yesterday, my reputation stopped increasing.
With the bonus 100 rep, I got a total of 165 reputation yesterday. And today I wrote some answers and I got 1 up-vote ...
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If the OP accepts a community wiki answer, do they get +2 rep? [duplicate]
Community Wiki answers give no reputation to the people who voted for them. They also don't give the +15 of acceptance if they are marked as accepted.
But does the OP (of the question) get the normal ...
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Do edits in the 5-minute grace period count as edits towards community wiki status? [closed]
It's clear from the faq about cw that 10 edits by the author makes a post community wiki.
There's also a 5-minute grace period on editing such that multiple edits in that period don't create multiple ...
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