How automated reports could help keeping Meta tidy

[JammyDodger]

@tobiaseigen

I like that idea but can’t help but think there must be a better way to make sure topics in Community wiki are wiki topics. I just checked and there is no filter for wiki (or not wiki), and there is also no bulk action to select topics and convert them to wiki (or not wiki). If those two features existed then it would be a no brainer to get caught up on this task.

I think the brilliant thing about data explorer is that you can perform these kind of checks ad hoc without the need to wait for any new features to be developed and implemented.

@tobiaseigen

If there are topics you come across that you feel should be wikis, please just flag them as “something else” and let us know they should be wikis. We’ll be happy to make the change.

It’s very helpful when community members do flag (or just reach out) and let you know if something isn’t right, but ideally I think it’s nice to do a bit of checking as well to save them the effort when you can.

FWIW There is a search option for in:wiki, so you could do #community-wiki in:first in:wiki, but that’s no help to find which ones aren’t wikis.

Another possible feature request could be to make it more like the topic timers, where any topic moved to a category with a default timer inherits that timer. So a category with ‘default wiki’ would apply wiki to the first post of any topics moved into the category as well as topics created there.