Questions tagged [documentation]
Use this tag for questions about the now phased out Stack Overflow Documentation feature. For posts relating to help pages (documentation for the site itself), use [help-center] instead.
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Warlords of Documentation: A Proposed Expansion of Stack Overflow
It’s been 7 years and 10,000,000+ Questions since Stack Overflow was launched. The amount of good that has been done for the field - all the developers helped, all the person-hours saved, all the ...
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Sunsetting Documentation
We will stop accepting contributions to Documentation on August 8 2017
On behalf of everyone who worked on Documentation, I want to thank all 15,451 users who contributed. We particularly want to ...
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Stack Overflow - Serving Programmers Even Better [closed]
In 2008, we set out to solve a problem that plagued every programmer in the world: the lack of an information resource that was free, vetted and maintained by programmers, where the best information ...
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The dawn of Documentation: a solstice update [closed]
Normally Kevin does these updates, but I wanted to take an opportunity to talk about how Documentation is doing from my perspective as a community manager. For the last 3 years or so, building ...
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Warlords of Documentation: Your Quest(ions Answered) [closed]
A couple of weeks ago we came to meta with a proposed expansion of Stack Overflow: Documentation. The response has been very encouraging: 2,400+ upvotes and even more signups for the beta.
You guys ...
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Is Documentation a failed experiment? [closed]
Early on, I made some small change to some small part of PHP Documentation and occasionally see a single rep point pop up, but I NEVER find myself visiting it for ANY reason now.
Matteo Italia's well ...
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Documentation Reputation Update Is Live [closed]
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Noticed your rep change? It’s because we’re deploying an update to the rep in the Documentation Beta as was announced a couple weeks ago. The biggest change: there is now a “minor” ...
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Remove "If Q&A is chocolate, Documentation is peanut butter." in the documentation tour [closed]
I don't see how this analogy helps the user to understand what differentiates the Q&A from the documentation. I don't even get the analogy (maybe a cultural thing).
SO is not a place for this ...
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Don't give me reputation points for making an edit to a Documentation topic [closed]
My reputation score is still low enough that I get excited when I see I have jumped +40 points in one day.
Oddly today this happened, and I found it was because people had upvoted a topic that I had ...
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Is Documentation failing? [closed]
Are there any stats for Documentation about the activity in a specific tag? I have observed that a niche tag like MATLAB is pretty much dead (last action on Dec 2nd). I personally lost interest in ...
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Documentation Update, November 29th [closed]
Well, November 2016 sure was a month that happened.
Now that we're on the other side of the US election and holidays (and the team is back at work) it's time for an update on Stack Overflow ...
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Tearing Down the Structure of Documentation [closed]
If you have told us (or privately thought) Documentation isn't working: You are correct. It isn't. Yet.
Since early on in the private beta of Documentation, we’ve used a simple, rigid structure:
Tags =...
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Documentation Update, August 4th [closed]
This is the second post in our series of regular (roughly weekly) updates on the Documentation Beta. See also the previous post in the series.
Shipped Changes
Review Rules
We've just enabled an ...
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Remove or Overhaul Reputation in Documentation [closed]
I think I can speak for many users to state that the current system of reputation gain from Documentation is implemented such that users can take advantage of it for easy reputation gain. I've seen ...
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Rename "Documentation" to "Examples" [closed]
Let's rename Documentation to Examples, as suggested by @Jeff Atwood (one of the founders of Stack Overflow) here and here.
The term "Documentation" is the root cause of many of the evils we ...
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