The discussion revolves around encouraging edits to wiki posts by making them more recognizable. some-user suggests creating a dummy user ‘wiki’ to own all wiki posts, aiming to clarify their collaborative nature. pfaffman agrees with the idea but is unsure of its effectiveness. zogstrip proposes using CSS to highlight wiki posts with a light green background. dax points to an alternative method using a style guide to modify the appearance of wiki posts, suggesting a non-user-based solution.
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?