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Old usernames stick to Community Wiki posts
It's not really possible to change your name completely on this site, since any comment (or chat message, I think) that ever @responded to you will still have the old name (and it's usually pretty ...
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Should community wiki posts give +2 for suggested edits?
Huh. I'm shocked that nobody noticed um posted to meta okay, posted-to-meta-and-I-saw-it about this before.
That does feel like a broken situation at first glance. Here I think it helps to go back ...
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Why do "Community Wiki" Q & A not get awarded reputation?
Since Community Wiki is largely deprecated (The Future of Community Wiki), it's not worth going into all the nuances of how it was supposed to be used. But in the earliest days, it was designed for ...
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If the OP accepts a community wiki answer, do they get +2 rep?
The questioner doesn't get a +2 for accepting a CW answer.
I have not been able to find a definitive answer, neither this answer:
What are "Community Wiki" posts?
nor this answer:
No ...
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Timeline is lacking an entry if a post is made community wiki again after the community wiki status was removed
It looks like the bug is that after the first instance of adding and removing Community Wiki status, additional Timeline entries aren't generated.
In order to reproduce the bug, this (now deleted) ...
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Where can you find your community-wiki answers?
You can use the site search:
wiki:1 user:me is:a
are the commands you're seeking for. Live example on Stack Overflow.
More detailed help.
Worth noting that this search also catches the answers ...
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How to post an answer to this question
Did you read the post notice?
This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that ...
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Diamond is not shown for mod name under wiki posts
I don't think this is a bug, but rather they did it fully on purpose.
The diamond, in this case, is not relevant. For Community Wiki posts, the author is not really relevant, so there are also no ...
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Hide votes for self-answered by community wiki questions for a few hours
Curation does not deserve a delay, even for self-answered questions. If the content is actually good, then the positive votes will outweigh the negative votes. While I won't disagree with the ...
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“community wiki” checkbox in new question shows a dialog twice when self-answering
That seems to be a bug in wmd.js
This line is wiring the click event to be only called one single time:
$(".js-post-editor input[type=checkbox][name=communitymode]").one("click", function () {
...
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Why is no reputation gained for approved edits on Community Wiki questions/answers?
Well, you only get +2 reputation after it is approved by other members of the community. This is true for normal edits (for which you don't gain any reputation after reaching 2,000 reputation), for ...
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Community Wiki still shows original poster
CW posts are not anonymous. The original poster of any CW post is accessible by design. It's not shown as prominently, more specifically, it's not necessarily shown directly in the user card, but ...
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Why is no reputation gained for approved edits on Community Wiki questions/answers?
Your edit wasn't approved as it didn't need to be. As stated in What are "Community Wiki" posts? the reputation needed to unilaterally edit a community wiki post is 100, rather than the 2000 ...
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If anyone requests removal of a forced Community Wiki setting, it should be removed without hesitation?
Is my reading correct and this is indeed an official guidance that moderators should follow?
"Note to Moderators" and the employee diamond almost certainly mean that the comment does contain official ...
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Is there punishment for people who badly/viciously edit community wikis?
If you ever see an example of a bad edit to a Community Wiki post, then if you are able you should either roll it back or edit it to a state which is at least as useful as the post was before it was ...
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the evaluation of posts edited by the user Community in SO
The Community user owns all suggested edits from anonymous users.
However, from your screenshot, it appears that the edit was done in 2017. Hence, it is likely part of the transition from HTTP to ...
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Promote the "collaborative"/ "wiki" style aspect of Stack Exchange more
Here's a further refinement: anyone who wishes can edit the post and then sign up to get notifications on comments/revisions/edit suggestions to the post just like a post owner. If you add that in, ...
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Why do I lose 10 reputation on 'unupvote' event of a community wiki answer?
Your post was initially not community wiki. According to the timeline, it had 9 upvotes on the day you made it community wiki. When a post becomes CW, that doesn't affect previous reputation gains (or ...
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How can high-activity questions be more wiki-like, driven by the community?
I feel like the problem you point out is going to be most true for the Big Three sites, since they're the busiest. Less so for sites with less activity.
I think the difficulty could be better ...
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How can I see example of community wiki?
The question you linked, and all its answers, are community wiki. Notice how, in the bottom-right where the author's usercard would normally be, it says "community wiki." Below that, you'll find ...
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Converting 'Is Stack Overflow a forum' Q&A into Community Wiki?
Ultimately community wiki status kind of depends on whether this question would actually be a good fit as a FAQ. Considering the large amount of discussion and vastly different answers, I'd say it's ...
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Is there worth in having a community wiki about community history?
I think this stuff is generally to be found on site Metas already. Organizing it has some merit: the really valuable discussions and decisions get hard to find eventually, even for the people who ...
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Why are there non-CW answers under this CW question?
First, one of the answers you mention was posted before the question was Community Wiki, so there is no reason for it to become CW. However, the second answer you mentioned was indeed posted after the ...
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Should we rollback / improve the answer on "Database schema documentation"
Edit:
The post in question has been rolled back to the OP's last edit.
Issue solved.
Community Wiki's are for "everyone". Should anyone (especially high-rep users such as those involved in this ...
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How to select community wiki questions?
You seem to have adjusted your query already (perhaps after @rene's comment which I failed to spot at first); it is working fine.
There's no IsCommunityWiki boolean/bit column in the Posts table; ...
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Can we ask any question on any topic by tagging “Community Wiki” post?
No, you can't. It will be closed and deleted, regardless of whether it's community wiki or not. What question you can ask are described in each site's Help Center, e.g.
What topics can I ask about ...
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How can I find questions marked as "community effort"?
It's post notice type 23, so this SEDE query should work. It's interesting to see that post notices are kept in the SEDE database even for deleted questions (the ones not rendering in the results).
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Can “Community Wiki” become public domain?
No, the license is no different than for other posts: CC BY SA, the specific version depending on the date of the revision.
You can see this by looking at the timeline (example: How do I undo the most ...
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Searching for community wiki answers with multiple editors
You can't do that with the search functions on the site. You have to fallback to SEDE. I've created this query that lists all posts that match the criteria you requested:
select p.id as [Post Link]
...
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Who actually owns Community Wiki posts?
The post is owned, in every sense of the word, by the original poster. To a limited extent, the wider community of users shares some ownership, but the original poster is very definitely first among ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible