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Unity Answers WIKI Option. Is it appropriate for Unity Answers?
This WIKI tag that can get slapped on anyone's question to allow modification by anyone...
Its pointless. Noone uses it. And even if people do try to use it its totally ignored or removed.
On top of that, posting self-answering questions and How-To's is not the point of the site and generally frowned upon.
Anyone with enough Karma can edit a question and 'noone' really want a 1 rep user editing their question.
So why is it there? And when should we really be using it?
Bonus Question : Should we introduce a WIKI/HOW-TO Space where users can post this stuff and hence give it a purpose?
First thing would be to make the wiki be not dead. When I signed up, it took more than a month before somebody approved the request. It's too bad, the wiki's full of useful utility scripts, though a lot of them are some versions old.
If a wiki's to survive, it should probably be linked next to Forums and Answers.
But, yeah, the "wiki" option isn't very useful, and asking open-ended questions where it makes sense goes against the things laid out in the user guide.
Re the Unity Wiki site (not Wikify feature here on Answers) - I have been looking into it. In the beginning, I was looking into how to make it easy for users to give feedback to the Docs, or even extend them with contributions. However, now I am looking at an alternative to this, where the Wiki can play an important role. So it's on my table, and right now it's leaning towards creating an entire new Wiki. I will need to get a discussion going with the community about this soon, as we need to figure out what content to migrate over, or if we would prefer to just start on a clean slate due to much content being outdated.
This is a good question, and you are suggesting the alternative of opening up a space for these types of questions. I hope more people can chip in here with opinions.
Seems like it would be worth having a space specific to these sorts of questions. Just to throw out a random though... It could be the starting point for useful knowledge, and questions with good enough answers could have the answer promoted to an actual wiki? It would turn the space here into kind of a pre-wiki filter if that makes sense.
Two birds, one sledgehammer. Or was it stone?
@Dave_Carlile This was kind-of how I always imagined UA should be but with stickies, I suppose. Now, the spaces would totally make sense for this.
I just came across this meta question and also think that the "wikify" option is kinda pointless here on UA. UA is a clear Q&A site and we want clear and specific questions as well as clear and detailed answers. Since most moderators can edit questions and answers it's already possible to do so when absolutely necessary. For the most part we just have to fix outdated documentation URLs
Apart from that we do already have the Unity wiki where everyone can create articles about literally anything since it's a full featured MediaWiki. The wiki actually needs some general overhauls as we still have a lot outdated information over there. Especially about UnityScript. Since US has beed deprecated a long time ago I think we could get rid of most of the information or if appropriate update / convert the articles to C#.
