# Wiki Discussion: Minimal and reproducible working examples

**URL:** <https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/wiki-discussion-minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2803>\
**Category:** Wiki Discussion\
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/wiki-discussion-minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2803 "2020-08-19T09:56:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@Wiki](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/Wiki)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/wiki-discussion-minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2803/1 "2020-08-19T09:56:02Z")

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This is a topic to discuss the Wiki

[Minimal and reproducible working examples](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2447)

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**Author:** ![EricGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@EricGT](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/EricGT)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/wiki-discussion-minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2803/2 "2020-08-19T09:38:00Z")

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> [@Add elements dynamically to an initially empty list recursively](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/add-elements-dynamically-to-an-initially-empty-list-recursively/2802/5):
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> [“How to create a Minimal, Reproducible example”](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example). Obviously we are not at Stackoverflow but the article is helpful in many contexts.

Thanks.

We have similar for this site:

[Minimal and reproducible working examples](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2447)

It is a Discourse Wiki so you should be able to edit it. 😃

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**Author:** ![Boris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/swi-prolog.discourse.group/boris/32/7486_2.png) [@Boris](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/Boris)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/wiki-discussion-minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2803/3 "2020-08-19T09:41:07Z")

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> [@EricGT](#):
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> It is a [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org) Wiki so you should be able to edit it.

Linking is much easier than editing 🙂 and takes less time.

Do you know how the content of the SO article and the Wiki here compare and contrast? Are they roughly the same in spirit but different in the detail?

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**Author:** ![EricGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@EricGT](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/u/EricGT)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/wiki-discussion-minimal-and-reproducible-working-examples/2803/4 "2020-08-19T09:49:47Z")

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> [@Boris](#):
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> Linking is much easier than editing 🙂 and takes less time.

I am not saying you have to edit the post here each time. I am saying that if you want to change the Wiki post at some time you can. 😃

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> [@Boris](#):
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> Do you know how the content of the SO article and the Wiki here compare and contrast?

Yes. I created the post here based on the StackOverflow post. This is noted at the bottom.

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> The above is based on a StackOverflow [version](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example).  
> User contributions licensed under [cc by-sa 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) with [attribution required](https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/25/attribution-required/).

The original post was made in the `Staff` category after many edits so only admins can use the edit history to see all of the changes, but the version in the link for this site is now the version of standard.

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> [@Boris](#):
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> Are they roughly the same in spirit but different in the detail?

Yes.

The one here was a copy of the the one you linked to on StackOverflow and then edited over a few months before being moved to the public category.