# Using Posts as a Wiki?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-posts-as-a-wiki/151700>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 16, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-posts-as-a-wiki/151700 "2020-05-16T15:16:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-posts-as-a-wiki/151700/16 "2020-05-18T18:35:47Z")

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> [@JQ331](#):
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> Are there other technical issues I’ll face trying to allow users to make their posts long wiki-pages?

Have you read 32,000 characters? I don’t consider that a “limitation” per se.

> **[Wikipedia:Article size](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size)**
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> This page contains an overview of the key issues concerning article size. There are three related measures of an article's size:
> The article size impacts usability in multiple ways:
> When an article is too large, consider breaking it into smaller articles, spinning part of it out into a new article, or merging part of it into another existing article. When an article is too small, consider merging with one or more other existing articles. Such editorial decisions require consensus. Guidelines ...

> A page of about 30 kB to 50 kB of readable prose, which roughly corresponds to 4,000 to 10,000 words, takes between 30 and 40 minutes to read at average speed

I think you have plenty of room to grow and engage. 🌈

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