Timeline for answer to Off topic questions have to be cleared out of the way, but NOT via closure by user1122069
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| Jul 4, 2017 at 3:54 | comment | added | user1122069 | To make a single wiki for every unique question is a great goal, but at best you can only moderate some of them. Q/A is not like a dictionary/encyclopedia, because there are too many valid ways of phrasing one question from too diverse an audience. Creating a site like wikipedia requires very detailed specifications as to how things are named and what they contain. They do not show individual "poster" identities and comments. One needs to take the actual content and start formatting it and structuring it to acheive that perfeced "authored and maintained" look. | |
| Jul 4, 2017 at 3:15 | comment | added | user1122069 | Joel still runs SO, so without a change of management, I don't see the "more like wikipedia than it ended up" theory. Rather, it is like wikipedia "for some extremely narrow, specific programming question". It is exactly like that. Its also clear his idea of editing was voting and writing a better answer. | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 2:16 | comment | added | Jeremy | FWIW Stack Overflow was created to be more like Wikipedia than it ended up. The original blog post where Joel announced the launch compared each question to a Wikipedia page, and collaborative editing was more strongly encouraged. | |
| Jul 2, 2017 at 22:19 | history | edited | user1122069 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2017 at 22:11 | history | answered | user1122069 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |