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Organization

Cunningham's Law

Social Knowledge Extraction.

The article

If

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." People are more motivated to correct mistakes than to answer questions.

Then

When documentation is missing, post your best guess of how something works. The person who knows the truth will appear to correct you far faster than if you had asked directly.

Unless

Socratic Method

Source

Attributed to Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki) by Steven McGeady; named in this form on Wikipedia (~2010).

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See also