On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> I hated the way it didn't seem to > indicate what message you were replying to. For the most part, the > conversation had a linear structure, not a tree one. They would reply > to the last message in the conversation and the reply would have the > same indentation as all the rest of the messages. To me, that makes it > look like a reply to the original message that started the wave. Heh, that's actually one of the memes in Wikipedia (etc.) talk pages that I never liked. Too geeky. Maybe they could do something with color coding... I dunno, I've found Wikipedia Review standard mode to be the best. If you're changing the topic, start a new thread. If it's really important that you're replying to something, quote it. I guess it goes back to the "discussion vs. collaboration" argument. If the purpose is discussion for the sake of the active participants, tree structures are extraneous. If the purpose is creating a collaborative document for third parties to view later, I think you've gotta go to "Document Mode". There's probably a lot of improvement that can be made to each, but I seriously doubt that Google is going about it correctly. I like the concept of DoubleWiki ( http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?DoubleWiki), but that never really caught on. The ability to use colors will surely be helpful. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
