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FWIW, Stack Overflow for Teams isn't a wiki.

coryfklein 8y ago
Its creator would disagree with you. [1] [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/28/stack-overflow-is-a-wiki/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/28/stack-overflow-is-...
- jfriend 8y ago
  That's Joel's version of link bait headline. It works nothing like a wiki. But of course, you already know that if you've used Stack Overflow. But, tomato, tomato.
  - coryfklein 8y ago
    wi·ki noun a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. StackOverflow is a website that allows users to edit the content of questions, answers, and tags. It also allows users to write new questions, new answers, and close existing questions and answers. How is that "nothing like a wiki"?
- habitue 8y ago
  Stack overflow was originally more like a wiki, with everything editable. Over time things got more immutable and marking questions as "community wiki" by default started being discouraged.
  - coryfklein 8y ago
    An question/answer doesn't have to be marked "community wiki" for you to edit it.
- wingerlang 8y ago
  https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/05/03/announcing-stack-overflow-for-teams/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/05/03/announcing-stack-o... In his post here, he kind of directly writes that SO is not like a wiki. > But you know what does work? A Q&A system. Like Stack Overflow. > Why? Because unlike wikis, you don’t write documentation in the hopes that one day it might help someone. "Because unlike wikis.."
  - coryfklein 8y ago
    In the exact quote you gave, he says that SO is different from "wikis" in that the question is written before the answer. When most people think "wiki", seeing answers before questions is certainly a common characteristic they could assign to the concept, but it's not what makes it a "wiki". I could design a wiki that was text-only and say, "unlike wikis, we don't present photos", but that wouldn't make it not-a-wiki.

Its creator would disagree with you. [1] [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/28/stack-overflow-is-a-wiki/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/28/stack-overflow-is-...

jfriend 8y ago
That's Joel's version of link bait headline. It works nothing like a wiki. But of course, you already know that if you've used Stack Overflow. But, tomato, tomato.
- coryfklein 8y ago
  wi·ki noun a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users. StackOverflow is a website that allows users to edit the content of questions, answers, and tags. It also allows users to write new questions, new answers, and close existing questions and answers. How is that "nothing like a wiki"?
habitue 8y ago
Stack overflow was originally more like a wiki, with everything editable. Over time things got more immutable and marking questions as "community wiki" by default started being discouraged.
- coryfklein 8y ago
  An question/answer doesn't have to be marked "community wiki" for you to edit it.
wingerlang 8y ago
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/05/03/announcing-stack-overflow-for-teams/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/05/03/announcing-stack-o... In his post here, he kind of directly writes that SO is not like a wiki. > But you know what does work? A Q&A system. Like Stack Overflow. > Why? Because unlike wikis, you don’t write documentation in the hopes that one day it might help someone. "Because unlike wikis.."
- coryfklein 8y ago
  In the exact quote you gave, he says that SO is different from "wikis" in that the question is written before the answer. When most people think "wiki", seeing answers before questions is certainly a common characteristic they could assign to the concept, but it's not what makes it a "wiki". I could design a wiki that was text-only and say, "unlike wikis, we don't present photos", but that wouldn't make it not-a-wiki.