I think I managed to follow what you guys have been discussing... was the resolution to enable the ability to create new tabs across the top of a page? If so, I agree, that would be cool - and we would see a healthy and usable diversity develop in my opinion. If that was not the resolution, then I'll revert back to Brent's initial call to debate the value of LQT.
Regarding LQT.. I think it is immature technology and should not be on Wikieducator ...yet. Almost every time I have gone into create or add to a discussion since LQT I have been put off, in fact I don't think I have joined any discussion since LQT. Just this morning, a colleague emailed me saying that he tried to start a discussion on the Time Management page<http://www.wikieducator.org/Talk:Time_Management>, but it wouldn't post so he was sending the text to me and a few others to discuss the issue off the page!! I tried to see what the problem was, it is true, the discussion page will not proceed once SAVE is clicked. This is a valuable discussion about Time Management that is being lost to the wider community now! How many other important development discussions are going this way do we think? Granted, the difficulty for newbies to enter a traditional MediaWiki discussion is a barrier for some (not a huge barrier considering it is not all that different to normal page editing), but at least the newbies would be able to read an existing discussion between those who can enter. In the instance of the Time Management page, this is not even possible. I do agree with the objective of getting a familiar and user friendly threaded discussion functionality. It would be a great thing to see.. but my feeling is that LQT is no where near that objective and is actually damaging progress on the Wikieducator. I hope that LQT will continue to develop on a developmentt wikispace (another Techtonic suggestion by Brent) and be introduced when it works reliably. Regards Leigh On Nov 21, 2007 12:22 PM, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erik wrote: > > > The purpose of the editable header is > > primarily for notices & announcements, which IMO should be at the top > > - it should never be longer than a paragraph or so. > > OK -- neat idea, then it may be a good idea to give this a default > heading like News & Announcements. Its not intuitive what this area is > for. Also if the text box spans the width of the page it may work > better by moving the [Edit] link for the banner some distance away > from the "start a new discussion link". > > I've see quite a few cases where Newbies have clicked on the edit link > for the banner area, as opposed to the new discussion link. Perhaps a > small icon or arrow pointing users to the start a new discussion link > will also help to avert this problem. > > Perhaps - we should also think about moving the placement of the > archive links you created into the archive somehow? I do appreciate > that you must have spent hours archiving existing talk pages in order > to go live with LQT on schedule. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
