In a wiki you need to establish enough context that the page is useful to someone who comes to it with no other help
Bingo.
The idea that answers can just be written in a wiki ad hoc is one of those pleasant-sounding pithy conversation-stoppers, but it's strictly notional. It's certainly true for small, bounded, well-defined, trivial and/or obvious stuff, but that's not usually the stuff people pester the experts about (well, one would hope).
Bingo.
The idea that answers can just be written in a wiki ad hoc is one of those pleasant-sounding pithy conversation-stoppers, but it's strictly notional. It's certainly true for small, bounded, well-defined, trivial and/or obvious stuff, but that's not usually the stuff people pester the experts about (well, one would hope).