What is Community Wiki mode?
When you make a post, you have the option of making it “community wiki” by checking a box at the bottom right of the input field. This has the following effects: • You earn no reputation from up/down-votes on that post. • Users with 100 reputation can edit the post (for non-CW posts, you need 2000 reputation to edit). • If the post is a question, all answers are automatically made community wiki as well. There is an ongoing discussion at meta.MO about when a post should be made community wiki. Here are some basic guidelines: • The most common use of community wiki mode is to ask a question where the goal is to produce a sorted list of answers, rather than a single complete answer. Community wiki mode gets the reputation system out of the way so that people more freely vote up and down to help rearrange the sort order, therby making the page more useful. If you want to ask such a question, please read at least the first two sections of the How To Ask page. • If you’d like to post a shoo
