Manual / FAQ Wiki

Way back in Anki’s early days, the docs were on a wiki. I found it frustrating to deal with abuse and low-quality contributions. A wiki doesn’t remove the burden of review - changes still need to be checked, but the difference is that they’ve already gone through in the wiki case, so other work needs to be put on hold when a page defacement needs cleaning up.

Note however that this forum does support marking a post as a wiki page, allowing others to edit it. And there have been some good long-form posts made here, such as Card Templates: User Input 101 (buttons, keyboard shortcuts, etc.) [Guide]. More could be done to make them easier to find - perhaps having a separate category for them, or a separate wiki post that lists them all.

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