For examples of what an article ("post only", as opposed to Q&A) category can look like, see the Blog category on Meta or the Recipes category on Cooking. There is also What do you think of a recipe tab? on Cooking which discusses some of what is currently possible to do, and which may help inform the discussion here.

I think Purim Torah can be Q&A or post-only just like real Torah can. How to organize it, then, I'm not sure. It seems a bit over the top to have two Purim Torah categories.

Would a Purim Torah category be excluded from default search results?

That gets to the question of how searches work. There has been some discussion (in general Codidact, not specific to Judaism) for having easy ways to search in a single category or across multiple categories.

@msh210 categories and post types are orthogonal. We can create a Purim Torah category that supports both Q&A and articles. (The "create post" page has a selector for post type in that case.)

@Aliza the plan for search is that you search in the current category by default and can check off a "search all categories" box. We don't have that yet. Currently search is global and each result shows which category it's from.

"One key item to decide is whether this should be open for new questions all the time or limited to 'close to Purim'."

Or if we need to have that at all.

I don't think we should be hosting much if any Purim Torah. That was a funny idea at Mi Yodeya which got somewhat old and out-of-hand over the years. No need to get stuck in old models just because.

"Purim Torah" is not an exclusively Mi Yodeya concept - it is well recognized in the Orthodox world. Just discussing this reminds me of some hilarious stuff I've seen locally.

@manassehkatz I know, but were it not for Mi Yodeya, there's no way people here would be talking about it a week into the site's existence and only debating if it should be two weeks or more. Let's take this opportunity to go back to the drawing board about a productive use of site resources and ways of generating quality content.

@AA I like fun. Purim Torah is fun. Done well (and Mi Yodeya did it pretty well), it is a good thing. In addition, unlike SE, we can relatively easily have a real section for it so that the big downside of cluttering the main Q&A will not happen.

Can you clarify in this question what the question is?

@AA You're right. Not really clear whether I am saying "What categories should we have?" or "Should we have these 2 categories, Divrei Torah and Purim Torah". And I see the responses cover both! I'll have to think about this a bit...not really sure myself.

I like this approach as applied to Purim Torah: It should be a tag, not a category.

Would things written to be read at the Pesach Seder count as Divrei Torah?

@Aliza They definitely can be Divrei Torah.