A tag for questions about the community wiki feature (regardless of whether or not the questions themselves are community wiki).
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“Answers to non-wiki questions” on user profile page are actually “non-wiki answers”
The tags page of user profile displays additional statistics on mouse-over. For example, hovering over number $3$ in 3 linear-algebra × 29 brings up the following:
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Community wiki: really?
The 'community wiki' tag on the sister question doesn't seem to be appropiate by its definition, since neither the questions nor given answers are suitable for multiple editors - not at all.
Is this ...
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My answer not showing my name
I wrote an answer to this question but now it is not showing my name it is showing community wiki and its upvote is also not add in my reputation.
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Community Wiki answers to avoid reputation
Sometimes, one comes across questions on the main site that facilitate very easy answers. For example, "Is this solution correct?" or "Is my understanding of definition X correct?", but also questions ...
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Upvotes and post-community wiki question deletion
Recently an answer of mine was subsumed by community wiki. A point was awarded during wikification that I think was not tallied. Then when my answer was de-wikified and I was able to delete the ...
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Potential Bug in Stack Exchange: Username changes after editing a wiki [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Old usernames and names of deleted users in CW-mode
See this answer for reference:
Advantages of IMO students in Mathematical Research
Note that the last edit shows up ...
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Answer made community wiki
My answer here was made into community wiki. I flagged for moderator attention to undo it, but nothing has happened. Can a moderator please undo the CW status of it?
Thanks.
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CW answers considered harmful?
Not really a discussion, more of a cautionary tale:
I sometimes write answers that are basically just compilations of facts that have already been noticed in comments to the question, but which I ...
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How to filter only posts that are community wiki?
How to filter only posts that are community wiki? I got aware of the existence of the community wiki today, but I don't know how to filter only CW posts. I'm in need of some help because I'm searching ...
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Should questions about book recommendations be CW?
The questions about recommendation of books/texts/lecture notes for some topic are to some extent subjective and they will often be left without accepting an answer (since among several good ...
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Edits and Community Wikis
How many times can I edit a question/answer before it automatically gets turned into a community wiki?
Thanks
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reputation points
This question has almost certainly been asked. Since I couldn't find it, I'll ask it and maybe be rewarded with a link to a prior question.
Would it be possible and/or desirable to lessen ...
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Should we have “Why is X Important?” or “Why do we study X?” in Community Wiki FAQ?
If this question is a duplicate, I apologize and please close it accordingly.
I saw a question Should I study algebra more? and got answers. Recently, someone asked a question Why studying number ...
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Helpful but ignored flag about a question in need of CW
I believe this question: Examples of apparent patterns that eventually fail should quite clearly be CW, as I have stated in the comments (with three upvotes hitherto).
I flagged the question for ...
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Do I get my question back from CW status when I rollback?
I tried to show what I have already done and so I kept on editing my own question. I turned CW after 13 edits or so. Since it's a quite special question, I don't think it should belong there, but I ...
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Why is “infinity minus infinity” a Community Wiki question?
I have an inquiry on the grounds of curiosity. The following question has been marked Community Wiki on August 31st:
What is the result of infinity minus infinity?
From my understanding, you have a ...
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RFC: Social norm about 'not an answer, just too long for a comment' and community wiki
Suppose you see a question which is very interesting and you spend some time thinking about it, and you have something to say about it.
You start writing as an answer, because you have several points ...
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CW-ikification: why?
An important number of flags that are raised in the main site asks mods to turn questions into CW mode. This is usually due to the fact that those questions do not have one answer, but many. Two ...
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Old usernames and names of deleted users in CW-mode
I noticed this several times already:
In CW-questions e.g. here (active user) or answers e.g. here (deleted user) not the current (or anonymized) user name but rather the one that was active at the ...
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Community Wiki?
Every so often I run into a question which I think should be community wiki. I am usually not sure about flagging since some of them have been around for a while and the question of why did noone ...
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My question was turned into a community wiki - should/can I still pick a best answer?
A question I asked yesterday was recently turned into a community wiki question. Ok, no problem. I understand why that decision was made. Before that was done however, I was contemplating which of the ...
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What to do with these posts on the “Batman equation” question?
These three posts (here, here, and here) on the Batman question are certainly not answers to the original question. However, I'm unsure about what exactly to do with them. Here are possibilities I've ...
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What to do with a bounty: community wiki answer pasted from mathoverflow
I'm not sure how or whether to award a bounty I started on Double sum - Miklos Schweitzer 2010 - it's been answered by a mathoverflow user, and pasted into a community wiki answer by another mse user.
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What kind of questions should be asked as CW?
I noticed this question:
Community wiki questions
Which I responded to on Stack Overflow Meta
So I was wondering:
What kind of questions does the math community think "belong" that should/must ...
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No increase in Reputation points
For the past two days, there seems to be some problem with my reputation. For instance, I received 7 up-votes for this question. However, there has been no change in my reputation. I noticed a similar ...
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Why my questions were turned into community wiki
My two questions were turned into CW: Question 1 and Question 2
I looked through a previous related
question here, and guessed it
might be because I edited my posts
too many times (>10)? Because I
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How to post answer without gaining “reputation” points and without CW?
Is there a way to post answers without gaining reputation points but retaining the higher editing barrier (or "authorship" if that concept applies here) of an ordinary, non-community-wiki posting? I ...
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What to do with already existing answers when a question is made community wiki?
Please take a look at this questions. It was made community wiki sometime after it was posted. The answers that appeared before that are still not community wiki. But I guess they should.
What do you ...
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Would questions like “I'm interested in learning Foo, recommend me some books, websites etc” be welcome here?
Would questions like "I'm interested in learning Foo, recommend me some books, websites etc" be welcome here? Where Foo is field of mathematics of course.
I haven't seen any yet, but they aren't ...
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What questions should be community wiki?
Under what circumstances should a question be made community wiki?
Probably any question asking for a list of something (e.g. 1) must be CW. What else? What about questions asking for a list of ...
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Seeded Questions Set to CW
I tend to think that maybe seeded questions should be CW. Not that I care about rep being given for seeded questions because they are helping the site, and rep should be awarded for helping out. But ...
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About the [soft-question] and [big-list] tags
The folk coming from Math Overflow generally seem keen to bring across the practice that:
Questions that don't look like they will have a single, correct answer should be tagged either ...
