# Experiment: Collaborative content gardening hub for meta

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiment-collaborative-content-gardening-hub-for-meta/397606
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [March 4, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiment-collaborative-content-gardening-hub-for-meta/397606 "2026-03-04T09:42:18Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2026, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiment-collaborative-content-gardening-hub-for-meta/397606/1 "2026-03-04T09:42:18Z")

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We want to try experimenting with making space for more collaborative content gardening here on meta, where users who want to help tidy various parts of the forum can coordinate directly with each other.

Think of this topic as a place to discuss things that are worth tidying, but may be too trivial to deserve their own topic or to be flagged.

We expect this process may evolve into something more sophisticated, but we want to start lean, using a single topic, and learn by doing together.

## How it works

This first post as a living document, capturing our guidelines for this activity. As we discover things that feel like they are working (or not working), we’ll capture them here for reference.

### Kinds of things we want to tidy together

- Move topics to the appropriate category
- Tag completed feature, bug, or UX topics with appropriate tags\[1\]
- Close topics that are no longer relevant
- Mark solutions for topics in the #Support category and subcategories
- Deduplicate topics by merging them or closing duplicates with links to canonical topic
- Delete or unlist obsolete topics

### What to post about here

- Clarify what or how to tidy
  - Ask clarifying questions about the above guidelines or specific cases  
(Larger discussions can be split out into their own topics)

- Suggest things to tidy
  - Point out topics that you think should be tidied, if you don’t have the power to do it yourself

- Share work you’ve done if it’d help us learn
  - We don’t need to share all our work, but do share if some action we’ve taken is a helpful example for others to learn from

### What not to do

- Don’t @ people
  - People who want to participate will follow this topic and engage on their own time

- Don’t use for typos
  - Some things are trivial enough issues to just leave be

- Don’t use as a replacement for flags that need moderator attention
  - Posts that need moderator attention should still be flagged

### Won’t this topic get messy? How do we keep it tidy?

This is a topic for active collaboration among those who choose to participate. It’ll be messy, but that’s OK, as long as the mess isn’t getting in the way of doing the work.

If the mess is getting in our way of doing the work, we’ll discuss what to do about it.

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1. Add #completed tag to topics in #Contribute > Feature and #fixed to #Contribute > Bug topics that are complete. And whichever one is more appropriate to completed #Contribute > UX topics.

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