# Change author of wiki posts to encourage edits
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-author-of-wiki-posts-to-encourage-edits/111493
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [13 maart 2019 om 15:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-author-of-wiki-posts-to-encourage-edits/111493 "2019-03-13T15:43:09Z")
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### Author:  [@some-user](https://meta.discourse.org/u/some-user)
#### Post date: [13 maart 2019 om 15:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-author-of-wiki-posts-to-encourage-edits/111493/1 "2019-03-13T15:43:09Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [13 maart 2019 om 16:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-author-of-wiki-posts-to-encourage-edits/111493/2 "2019-03-13T16:51:44Z")
> [@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.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [13 maart 2019 om 16:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-author-of-wiki-posts-to-encourage-edits/111493/3 "2019-03-13T16:57:59Z")
You could change the background of the wiki posts to a light green with CSS?
```css
.wiki .topic-body {
background-color: rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.1);
}
```
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [13 maart 2019 om 19:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-author-of-wiki-posts-to-encourage-edits/111493/4 "2019-03-13T19:42:26Z")
No need to change user, you have other way to encourage edits
> [@Change the style of a wiki post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-style-of-a-wiki-post/78881):
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> A quick guide to change the style of your wiki posts: 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; } Add text You can add a text to make clear to users that what they are watching is a…
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [1 mei 2022 om 18:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-author-of-wiki-posts-to-encourage-edits/111493/6 "2022-05-01T18:26:55Z")