an excellent answer that sums it up well: we have no way to organize. note that there are deliberately two ways for finding the best answers: the one that bubbles up by vote, and the one that the asker selects. but we only have voting to find the most relevant questions, and it only goes so far when there are thousands upon thousands of questions.

i suddenly realize i never actually asked what i should do with the subprocess docs i wrote, existing Python articles, etc. but the other questions are far more interesting.

wikipedia doesn't want to be the kind of wiki we would use. remember, they're an encyclopedia! they want facts from reliable sources and information of interest to a general audience. we want expert advice/opinions for our specific craft. aside from very shallow overviews, it's unlikely we'll have any significant overlap with wikipedia, ever.

interesting. arguably the SO redirect is the correct one, but the practical experience for most users will be the DOI redirect. google's right to be confused. (also i'm not sure what to make of SO being ousted from google by a government programmer blindly copying code from SO. the mind boggles.)

it seems perfectly fitting that we already need 20k (or to impress someone with 5k) for a wiki edit. we've got the vetting, and we've got the content. wikipedia must be salivating. there's just nowhere to put it all!

believe it or not, the first draft was 50% longer. it gathered a lot of lint from the 30-odd meta questions i dug through before writing it. i'll try to trim it down some more :)

i eagerly await the deluge of "excessively long" flags

when are we going to stop building separate sites for the false dichotomy of Small Touchscreen and Big Monitor With Keyboard?