Also for bonus points: if we can create high quality content here, that is better than the corresponding equivalent post on That Other Network, that gives us a reason to link to the content here, rather than to that other place. We have the advantage of all the lessons learnt from there - the equivalent of my specific example is a fragmented, scattered post with 28 answers over the years, where the top-voted one is quite shallow. Doesn't take much effort to outshine that patchwork.

I remember this being proposed already, but I can't seem to find it...

We don't have it yet. An "anyone can edit" option for the author is something I'd like to see us do. ("Anyone" to be further clarified; probably means anyone who's gained the Participate Generally ability?)

@‭Dani‭ There has been various community-specific proposals about adding a separate documentation/wiki category, which is related but still kind of a different thing entirely, like in that link at the bottom of my post. On the electronics site this was added as a separate "Papers" category. https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/35. Which I suppose would be one way to do it, except that category would end up quite spammy if it should contain all canonical dupes.

Or maybe I'm overreacting & nobody cares about imaginary internet points, so the whole partial thing is a non-issue? I personally stopped caring about them many years ago on SO, once I had unlocked all user moderator privileges. And from what I hear, a new system for moderation privileges unrelated to rep is getting rolled out?

I have been very much in favor of such a thing from the beginning. "Harper Reinstate Monica" and I tried to make a similar thing on DIY SE a while back - essentially a How To guide that would cover a ton of routine, but important, questions, so that people could be referred to it and then either not need to ask a question at all or ask a very specific/detailed question. Unfortunately, SomewhereElse there is no way to make that question obvious/accessible so it is there but nearly useless

because nobody can find it - I've had trouble finding it myself when I have wanted to refer others to it. "Papers", "Articles", "Blog", "Wiki" - whatever you call it, the result is the same if it ends up with a multi-author well-written and easy-to-find reference work related to many typical questions on a site.

@Dani https://meta.codidact.com/questions/277355 ?

@Moshi Yep.

@Lundin "maybe nobody cares about imaginary internet points" -- I think the points might get more important as the site gets bigger. Deleting and editing content will get more important later. It doesn't take any rep to attempt to document something, comment, or answer, which are probably the most important things to do right now. When the content turns into an ocean of outdated stuff, that's when I start wishing I had delete votes and a better ability to edit posts.