Right. The issue is, in practice large talk pages in threadmode are as much or more of a mess. Archives dont solve it because they break conversation flow and bury conversations. Refactoring would but its a lost art that seems to be at odds with a culture that treats a signed comment as invioably sacred, not to mention the issues of neutrality and time involved.
So we are stuck with two solutions (talk and !iquidthreads) that both have their own cludginess and inability to scale. What we need is a collaborative discussion platform that is designed to scale, preserve transparency, and allow users to track scattered conversations in one place. While i dont meam to suggest that we become anything resembling a social network there are aspects of the "lifestream" interface model that lend well to the type of communication necessary for collaborative work - the ability to follow specific conversations as well as groups and pages as well as a "request" inbox that could be leveraged as a process model. On 12/22/10, Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> wrote: > If we decide we want a bulletin board discussion instead of a talk > page it would not be difficult to do this from scratch (actually we'd > probably want to import code from existing licence-compatible open > source BBS projects--many BBS packages seem to be coded in PHP, which > would make integration a doddle). As I understand it, Liquid Threads > is just a kludge to make something resembling a BBS using talk pages > and a lot of cocktail sticks and sticky tape. That's why it's such a > hideous mess in practice. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- Faith is about what you really truly believe in, not about what you are taught to believe. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
