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28 questions linked to/from Stop using community wiki as a reputation denial mechanism
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What are "Community Wiki" posts?
Some questions and answers are marked Community Wiki and are owned by a community wiki user:
(In fact, this very question is one of them)
Why have Community Wiki posts?
How do Community Wiki posts ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Change rep required to downvote on MSE
To make your opinion known on MSE you need both up and downvotes. Given at the moment you need 125 rep to downvote on this site, the voting patterns will be skewed positive because not everyone is ...
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Can we disable automatic community wiki conversion for answer edits?
Currently, if a user edits their answer more than a certain number of times, that answer is automatically converted by the system to community wiki status. This trips up many well-meaning and active ...
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Auto-protect questions that get more than N answers from new users in a 24-hour period
Expanding the criteria for auto-protection has been discussed in the past: Should we automatically protect all questions with more than N answers?
But I think that discussion addresses the wrong ...
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Add warning if your edit will make the post Community Wiki [closed]
The below is no longer relevant since posts are no longer converted automatically to Community Wiki after being edited
As the Community Wiki process can't be undone and is automatically happening ...
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Why does repeated editing by same user lead to community wiki? [closed]
After 11 edits (12 versions) from the same user an answer becomes community wiki. There are lots of questions regarding the way in which this happens but none (that I could find) regarding "Why&...
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How should we deal with a question being bumped repeatedly via edits performed by the author of the accepted answer?
I noticed this question had been bumped recently, and when looking at the edit history it appears that a single user edits the title repeatedly. Presumably in an effort to gain exposure for their ...
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What causes a post to be auto-flagged for many edits more than once?
Now that automatic community wiki is finally dead, when a post is edited too many times and/or by too many users, the post is automatically flagged for moderator review.
I just reviewed a post that ...
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Why not auto-convert posts made by deleted users to community wiki?
Speaking from personal experience, substantial edits to existing answers are usually rejected because
the reviewer may not always be an expert in the topic discussed
even if they are, some are ...
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Avoid conversion to CW at 10 edits: allow user option to not have post pushed to top of home page [duplicate]
I would very much like to be able to edit my posts beyond 9 times without them automatically being converted to Community Wiki. I am willing to forgo the "pop to top of home page" function as many ...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Edit Rate Limit
Due to a recent change in how grace period edits work, users without the "remove new user restrictions" privilege can no longer take advantage of the grace period — all their edits now ...
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My answer got converted to Community Wiki [duplicate]
My answer was converted to Community Wiki. Can someone give me an explanation for this?
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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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If anyone requests removal of a forced Community Wiki setting, it should be removed without hesitation?
Just stumbled upon a recent comment posted by Director of Community Development for the Stack Exchange Network (Robert Cartaino), it sounds like an official guidance to moderators:
Note to ...
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