We are using wiki posts in our community in a certain category. Still, people don’t recognize them as wiki posts. Instead of editing, they add additional information or corrections as replies to the topic. I was thinking of ideas how to make wiki posts more obvious to users. I actually don’t like that the wiki post is owned by the first author. Maybe this person hasn’t contributed most, maybe none of the original post is left, … I was thinking of creating a dummy user “wiki” and make him own all wiki posts. This should make it more obvious that this post is not owned by a certain user. What do you think about that? Anybody experienced similar problems? Did you find good solutions?

[image] some-user: I was thinking of creating a dummy user “wiki” and make him own all wiki posts. This should make it more obvious that this post is not owned by a certain user. What do you think about that? That’s what I was thinking as I read this. I don’t know if it’ll work.

You could change the background of the wiki posts to a light green with CSS? .wiki .topic-body { background-color: rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.1); }

No need to change user, you have other way to encourage edits [image] Change the style of a wiki post Developer Guides A quick guide to change the style of your wiki posts: [image] Change the background color: In your /admin/customize/themes add this CSS under Common > CSS .wiki .topic-body .cooked { background-color: #dcffdc; /*light green*/ } Change text size If you want you can also change the font used or the size of the text, even the color .wiki .topic-body .cooked p { font-size: 18px; color: green; } [image] Add text You can add a text to make clear to users that what they are watching is a…

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 13, 2019, 4:51pm 2

That’s what I was thinking as I read this. I don’t know if it’ll work.

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