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View submission: Admins: Whatever you're doing with the wikis and SEO, keep it up!
Wikis' primary value is that they can be edited by multiple people collaboratively. Changes can be rolled back to previous versions rapidly. They aren't subject to upvote/downvote fluctuations, archiving or aging off of the front page of your subreddit.
Reddit allows you to restrict wiki access to members of your subreddit who meet local karma and account age minimums, which is something I recommend implementing before heavily decking out your wiki.
The main drawbacks are that it's tough to add images, they're not terribly friendly to mobile users, and search engines don't love them very much.
They're mostly used for things that you want permanently on hand as reference. I've seen them used for episode guides, links to useful posts and comments, reference material, shopping guides, FAQs, more extensive explanations of rules, warnings about sketchy redditors, etc.
Some bots and extensions like toolbox and automoderator will store config data in the wiki. Bots can easily interact with wiki pages. We use ours to hold boilerplate text that our bot can auto-assemble into every issue of our subreddit's weekly newsletter.
You edit with markdown just like you do elsewhere on reddit. You can make pages that anyone in the subreddit can edit, or that approved users can edit. You can also make mod-only pages which are only visible/editable by your staff. (These are great for modding guides and tutorials!)
Here are some neat wiki pages I've found in various subreddits (alphabetical list by sub name):
(r/wikipedia has no wiki. Make of that what you will.)
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/wiki/affordable
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/wiki/index
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/wiki/diy_beginners_guide
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/wiki/guides
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/hermitcraft/wiki/subreddithistory
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/wiki/sprites
8: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/wiki/faq
9: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/wiki/pages/
If you've got wiki activated for your subreddit, you can start a new page by browsing to `https://www.reddit.com/r/YOURSUBREDDITHERE/pageyouwanttomake` and it will give you the option to create a new page. Then type in the box just like you were making a normal post.
Note that once you make a page you can't delete it, although you can blank it and remove all links to it.
You can view a list of all of the pages in your subreddit's wiki at `https://www.reddit.com/r/YOURSUBREDDITHERE/wiki/pages/`. You'll probably see some pages there already, particularly in the config section if you've set up your Old Reddit layout at all.
Pages in the wiki/config section are essential to how your subreddit operates so be careful in there and avoid adding pages to that area unless you know what you're doing. Your old reddit stylesheet and sidebar are included in there.
If you want to play around with wikis, I'd recommend setting up a private testing subreddit where you can experiment without fear of others seeing you make newbie errors. (Actually I recommend setting up a private subreddit for testing stuff anyhow.)
Comment by Keyluver at 05/10/2021 at 14:42 UTC
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Wow thank you so much for clarifying this for me, I appreciate the time and effort you took to explain this.
I have much to think about, perhaps wiki isnt something i need to use for my sub