That's Joel's version of link bait headline. It works nothing like a wiki. But of course, you already know that if you've used Stack Overflow. But, tomato, tomato.
Re:Stack Overflow for Teams
by coryfklein on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:37AM
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wi·ki noun
a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.
Re:Stack Overflow for Teams
by wingerlang on Thursday May 03, 2018 @12:24PM
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https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/05/03/announcing-stack-o...
In his post here, he kind of directly writes that SO is not like a wiki.
> But you know what does work? A Q&A system. Like Stack Overflow. > Why? Because unlike wikis, you don’t write documentation in the hopes that one day it might help someone.
"Because unlike wikis.."
Re:Stack Overflow for Teams
by coryfklein on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:34PM
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In the exact quote you gave, he says that SO is different from "wikis" in that the question is written before the answer.
When most people think "wiki", seeing answers before questions is certainly a common characteristic they could assign to the concept, but it's not what makes it a "wiki".
I could design a wiki that was text-only and say, "unlike wikis, we don't present photos", but that wouldn't make it not-a-wiki.
Stack overflow was originally more like a wiki, with everything editable. Over time things got more immutable and marking questions as "community wiki" by default started being discouraged.
Re:Stack Overflow for Teams
by coryfklein on Thursday May 03, 2018 @01:35PM
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An question/answer doesn't have to be marked "community wiki" for you to edit it.
[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/28/stack-overflow-is-...