Timeline for Community Wiki in the hands of moderators
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| Aug 20, 2018 at 8:24 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | As far as I can tell, questions can be made CW only by mods (on SE sites) since 2010, see this answer: What can we do to make Community Wiki better? (Also other posts linked to this question might be useful.) Although the blog post that was linked in quid's answer has probably more detailed explanation of the rationale behind this: The Future of Community Wiki. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 13, 2013 at 16:20 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @Manishearth : I'm fine with moderators pitching in; the thing I don't like is that it is only moderators who can have the finger on the CW button. This seems to me, in a practical sense, an unnecessary degree of control (and I don't like any time delay between non-CW converting to CW; it should be something that can be rendered instantly, IMO). | |
| Jul 13, 2013 at 14:46 | answer | added | Benjamin Steinberg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 21:58 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | Thanks for explaining, quid. Glad we agree it's tangential! | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 21:54 | history | edited | Todd Trimble | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2013 at 21:51 | comment | added | user9072 | I intended this as a reply to your "I don't think it was the existence of CW per se that caused problems in the past, but rather the quality of the questions." So I gave an argument why the existence of CW and the existence of a certain type of questions is not unrelated. Of course, if noone asked these question to begin with there would be no problem. But the existence of CW makes it worse. But I agree this is tangential, also I did not start this debate. Actually I wanted to avoid it explicitly. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 21:24 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | quid, that's really neither here nor there because there are no plans to get rid of CW. The whole issue is over who gets to decide CW. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 21:21 | comment | added | user9072 | @ToddTrimble: the issue is well explained in the blogpost I link to. CW creates a vague area for weak questions that however for some "do not really count" and thus are still tolerated. Had there been no CW mode I doubt some questions would have happened (or stayed open). | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 19:56 | history | edited | Asaf KaragilaMod |
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| Jul 12, 2013 at 19:38 | comment | added | Manishearth | @ToddTrimble In that case, ee if you can get more moderators. It seems like you've been running on a system where the community handles itself. That's great, but the mods need to be able to pitch in. Just flagging it should work | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 19:20 | answer | added | David White | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 18:40 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | @quid: I don't think it was the existence of CW per se that caused problems in the past, but rather the quality of the questions. I believe in any case that questions which solicit opinions or do not otherwise admit definitive answers ought to be CW, and that many on the old system had the good sense to know when that applied. What I really want is for users to be treated as adults, and not have to go running to momma and poppa (i.e., the moderators) to get permission to do something they know is right. The issue of rep is rather secondary in my view. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 16:18 | comment | added | user9072 | An additional detail: I think frequent users asking something in CW is sufficiently rare relative to the general CW-able material that it does not even change that much regarding volumr of requests. (If an OP does not ask right away in CW, to ask them to turn it CW is most of the time not enough, since the answeres are not CWed without moderator intervention. And again many either do not know or care about this and ask OP to turn the question CW while at the same time answering in non-CW. Just that I do not have to see this again would be enough to be happy about it having changed.) | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 16:00 | comment | added | user9072 | @JasonPolak: "but I feel like the history of MathOverflow has shown that this is not a problem for us" I think some would vehemently disagree. Actually, I think a lot of the debates we had over the years would not have been needed if it were not for the existence of CW. (I do not elaborate, as this is not the subject here.) | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 15:57 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 15:27 | comment | added | user1437 | I think StackExchange wants to keep the focus on questions with a right answer. Maybe this has caused a problem on other StackExchange sites, but I feel like the history of MathOverflow has shown that this is not a problem for us. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 15:04 | history | asked | Todd Trimble | CC BY-SA 3.0 |