Should Scientific Speculation support information-sharing that isn't in question form?
We've had a couple posts (example (deleted), example) that aren't really questions, but are information and maybe starting points for development. Over on the Worldbuilding proposal we're talking about a 'workshop' category where such posts would fit. This isn't Worldbuilding, though there is a proposal to merge SciSpec into Worldbuilding, and we don't have that concept here yet, but -- should we? If ultimately the communities merge then problem solved, but while SciSpec remains separate, what do folks think about adding a "workshop" category here? It could support either or both of Q&A and wiki posts (articles, collaboratively edited).
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"Questions" that only exist to present information and not really ask anything are awkward.
Sometimes this one-way information sharing can be useful, but it doesn't fit well within a Q&A format. The solution is a different category that isn't Q&A. I think the generic Codidact term for that is "Article". A good example is the Papers category on the Electrical Engineering site. I think Cooking has one like that too for recipes or something.
I'm not sure what the category should be called. "Papers" sounds too formal for this site. Maybe "Ideas"?
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