Should we make this answer Community Wiki?

Question

Is there an official Marvel Cinematic Universe viewing order?

• This answer is an ever-growing list which looks good for community wiki thing.

• Other users update the answer time to time (when new MCU property is released).

• The original answerer has earned lots of reputation already. Although, this shouldn't be a reason to make the answer community wiki, it points out that it shouldn't be considered a loss to OP besides he is cashing on mostly others' work now.

Should we convert the answer into community wiki?

Answer 1

My gut instinct is to say no, for the simple reason that the OP didn't just post a list of the current films and then abandon it. Since it was posted, they've made an additional 14 edits with their original text and additional changes representing some 90% of the current text.

As such, their contribution to this answer represents a significant investment of their time and effort, for which they should be rewarded with any continuing rep.

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That's not to say that we shouldn't revisit this every couple of years, when the contribution of the community may have started to outweigh their contribution more heavily.

Answer 2

We should not do anything.

Per this question and the two answers, "no answer should be made CW". Sure, a user may choose to make an answer community wiki should they feel so, but it's never an obligation.

We could break this down by pros and cons:

Pros:

• None? If I understand this correctly, the only thing that will change is the amount of rep required to edit the post without the review queue: from 2000 to 100. Do we need that? Who needs that? It's not like we desperately need drive-byers to add a valuable piece of information - well, we do, but it could be as easily done by anyone who has watched the films, which, judging by the number of marvel-cinematic-universe questions, is a lot.

Cons:

• Main contributor will lose rep

  • Here I disagree with your assertion that they're mostly getting rep for other users' work - it appears that the poster has been revisiting the answer regularly, and updating it, to the point when the majority of the post still belongs to them.

• We'll have less quality control - that's the downside of the lowered rep requirement. It's not really a bad thing (as one can catch that easily), but still.

Regardless of what we think, per this blog post, all parties should be consulted when making an answer a community wiki - meaning the final decision always rests with the answerer.