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How many edits to question for it to become community wiki?
How many edits to question for it to become community wiki?
I've found posts about answers. Not about questions.
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Second opinion requested on user rolling back changes to remove religious material [duplicate]
As well as answering the odd question on the main site, I am an active editor - I spend time trimming chat, fixing case, improving spelling and grammar, and so forth. In 99% of cases, my edits are ...
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Do we need tags for UI elements?
Today a user decided to start removing a tag for a specific UI element (checklist). The community seems to be in support of its removal. I'm not, not even remotely, but I do think the community should ...
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Is it possible to get a featured tag badge?
I posted an answer in a question that had the featured tag recently that got a fair amount of upvotes, that got me wondering if you could possibly get the featured tag badge. But then I noticed that ...
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Past vs. Present [duplicate]
My question is: Have the rules of Stack Overflow changed at any point since its creation?
I ask this because, prior to joining SO a few months ago, I researched and Googled several of the questions I ...
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Why has my flag been declined?
I flagged the question Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents? for closure as it is a resource recommendation question. My flag has been declined.
Why is my flag declined? Isn't the ...
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Which flag should I use for too much code? [duplicate]
I just got the privilege to edit or review questions and answers. Now I'm faced with the question: what flag is the right one, when the question includes too much code?
Surely Needs author edit, but ...
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Is it time to reward OPs for accepting a proposed duplicate?
OK, so the title may seem daft, and even a wee bit provocative but, I prithee, let me explain! First, some context: duplicate questions are a source of great consternation among the Stack Overflow ...
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Link to a personal resource in multiple answers if it is relevant/helpful?
I was answering questions on SO today and I realized I frequently link to one of my own projects, which I will not post here to avoid self-promotion. The fact is that the website is a collection of ...
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How to create a reproducible example when converting a very large file I am unable to manipulate directly?
Let me start by saying that I am aware that several similar-sounding questions have been asked, but I have reviewed the answers supplied in all of those I could find and none of them appear to me to ...
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Stack Overflow Survey: Where do the developers go?
Looking through the results of the Stack Overflow survey each year, one graph always interests me.
Does this mean that people are flooding into coding, or is there a 'life-span' to coding, to which ...
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How to include parameters and link to results in SEDE query?
I think there should be a further option at Stack Exchange Data Explorer while executing a query. For instance, I want to send this query (with the results). However, when I send the link to anyone ...
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How do I triage question with [SOLVED] and the author didn't post the answer?
This question appeared in the triage:
Java program still running even after FTP connection closed [SOLVED]
This might be an adequate question if the author shares the answer to their own problem. ...
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Why is a specific edit request rejected?
This suggested edit fixes a genuine bug in my opinion, but it was rejected. I am the author of the original answer, and the commenter (xoolive) picked a bug in the code. I suggested to him in a ...
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Is it possible to merge documentation topics? [duplicate]
If i see a couple topics (within a single tag) that should really be together, is there any way to merge their examples into one?
Say, Reading files into pandas DataFrame into Read csv file into ...