Make #plugin "wiki by default"

I think it may make sense to turn on the “Make new topics wikis by default” setting on in the plugin category here on meta. If the plugin has any legs, you’ll invariably need to update the first post a number of times over the course of its life.

It will also allow for some useful non-technical contributions from long-term / power users of a plugin. I want to start asking such users to help me out by updating the “product” description.

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Done, but we need to work through old topics @jomaxro can you clean this up

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Just checking, by “clean this up” you want me to make all existing plugin topics wiki?

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All topics in the plugin category are now wiki. This was only applied to the plugin category, not any of the subcategories.

Thanks @joebuhlig for the SQL command, saved me some time writing it from scratch :smiley:.

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My pleasure. You don’t know how many times I’ve referred to that topic. :wink:

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Was it intentional to have closed topics wikified? eg.

It was not, good catch. I didn’t add any validation to the command, it was applied to all topics. I’ll do a quick manual review and “un-wiki” closed topics.

Edit: That’s done. Certain closed plugin topics (like Ads) are still wiki. They’re closed to prevent further replies when a subcategory (ie. #plugin:advertising) exists, not to indicate the plugin is closed/broken.

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