[coryfklein]

Nearly every company I've worked at is already paying for a vendor locked-in wiki. Of course, ADDING StackOverflow means they're now paying for TWO vendor locked-in wikis (at least until they can shut down the old one, if ever), but it may be still be a net improvement.

[jfriend]

FWIW, Stack Overflow for Teams isn't a wiki.

[coryfklein]

Its creator would disagree with you. [1]

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/12/28/stack-overflow-is-...

[jfriend]

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.

[coryfklein]

wi·ki noun

    a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.

StackOverflow is a website that allows users to edit the content of questions, answers, and tags. It also allows users to write new questions, new answers, and close existing questions and answers. How is that "nothing like a wiki"?

[wingerlang]

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.."

[coryfklein]

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.

[habitue]

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.

[coryfklein]

An question/answer doesn't have to be marked "community wiki" for you to edit it.