# Category setting: new topics are wiki by default

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-setting-new-topics-are-wiki-by-default/16618
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** wiki-posts
**Created:** [Juin 17, 2014, 3:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-setting-new-topics-are-wiki-by-default/16618 "2014-06-17T15:18:09Z")
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### Author: ![joebuhlig](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joebuhlig/32/193054_2.png) [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)
#### Post date: [Décembre 18, 2016, 1:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-setting-new-topics-are-wiki-by-default/16618/23 "2016-12-18T13:44:12Z")

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Per guidance and support from @jomaxro, I’ve managed to put together a PR for this. It creates the category setting, makes new topics in that category a wiki topic, and retroactively makes existing topics a wiki as well. 😉

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4609](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4609)

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