# Wiki topic mini spec

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-topic-mini-spec/13966>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** rfc, spec\
**Created:** [Mars 21, 2014, 10:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-topic-mini-spec/13966 "2014-03-21T10:44:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [Mars 23, 2014, 10:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-topic-mini-spec/13966/12 "2014-03-23T22:49:12Z")

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> [@lightyear](#):
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> But same for polls, I’d consider this bad practice.

That is just like, your opinion man 🙂

I can see multiple use cases:

- Q&A archetype, Question remains normal, some answers are wiki.
- Topic summary post for long topics, such as [Underrated and overrated films (and other general filmy chat) - general topics - Boing Boing BBS](http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/underrated-and-overrated-films/19345) which would be totally fine as post #2
- Full Wiki topics, where post #1 is a table of contents and rest of posts are linked from there

Etc.

> [@lightyear](#):
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> allowing the post to become “unwiki-ed” by admins later

Admins can do whatever they will, then can rewrite posts, impersonate users and wreak havoc with a forum if they wish. It is the nature of being an admin. Besides history is not going to be rewritten as part of un-wiki if ever needed so you can track it down. (Though admins will need nuke revision at some point)

> [@lightyear](#):
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> Fair enough. Unfortunately what has been proposed as a “wiki” spec here wouldn’t be sufficient in the case of what we are working on (me, full-time from next week I might add)

There is a **VERY** important order of operations here. This is a strategic feature that we need first before building a huge battleship. This is a small, well specified, very useful feature that could be implemented in days. And **must** happen before we will even consider merging a wiki archetype into core. (which must be will specified regardless)

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