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 …

[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 und…

Change author of wiki posts to encourage edits

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dax (Daniela) March 13, 2019, 7:42pm 4

No need to change user, you have other way to encourage edits

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