I was wondering if in the future, there’s any way that users could add info or change info to questions in articles on wikiHow. I remember once I came across a question in my own article (I forget which one now) but I wanted to add info to the answer but can’t. I think it would be cool that if the creator of the article (in my case) could have the opportunity add info or change an answer that isn’t answered well.
Anna
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This is something our engineers are definitely experimenting a little with - We do have a handful beta testers (mostly admins and boosters) trying out a rudimentary editing system. However, from an engineering and quality perspective, it’s a tricky problem because Q&A is handled outside of wikitext, so we don’t have a good way of reviewing changes there (ie no RC Patrol). That means that opening up editing also leaves a potential loophole for a lot of spam, vandalism, inaccuracies, etc, and puts a lot of responsibility on anyone editing to get everything 100% right in their fix (since there’s no revert/history option, either). In the long run, I’d hope we can get some kind of set of user rights or RCP/history-type system especially for this, to allow good faith edits and conscientious improvements without the icky stuff, which might give us more options to grow this as a feature!
In the meantime, though, we can certainly edit anything out there that’s wrong - drop me a note if you remember what it was!
That’s true. That would be nice to get an RCP/history for it.
