On 09/07/2014 01:57 AM, Diego Moya wrote: > a major property of a document-centric architecture that is lost in a > structured one is that it's open-ended, which means that end users can > build new features and flows on top of it, without the need to request the > platform developers to build support for them (sometimes even without > writing new software at all; new workflows can be designed and maintained > purely through social convention).
And yet, after over a decade of open-ended design through social convention, the end result is... our current talk pages. Perhaps another decade or two will be needed before that document-centric architecture gives us a half-decent discussion system? Sorry if that sound snarky, but I have difficulty buying an argument that the current system has the potential to suffice when it has demonstrably already failed. It does no good to have the hypothetical capacity for a good system if, in practice, it's unusable. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
