On 06.06.2014 22:17, Brian Wolff wrote:
On 6/6/14, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
So I want to know:
* What are the blockers for doing this?
* Are there any use cases / killer features in LiquidThreads that are
not in Flow that need to be ported over?
Flow doesn't support actual threaded discussions beyond a very limited
depth,[1] meaning that a real threaded discussion is likely to turn into a
morass of comments without clear indication of what is replying to what
unless people actively work around it.[2] Since converted LQT threads are
likely to lack the quoting necessary to work around this misfeature,
they're particularly liable to wind up unreadable if they're at all complex.
Also, bug 57512 comment 31 could use a reply.[3]
[1]: Although this is a matter of configuration rather than something
hard-coded, I doubt the configuration is going to be changed.
[2]: I won't go into more detail here about this or about why pings (as
Flow encourages to work around the misfeature) aren't sufficient.
[3]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57512#c31
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Personally I have yet to see a discussion system that surpasses (or
really even comes close) to standard talk page ":::comment here. ~~~~"
syntax. Honestly it would make me happy if we just used that in
general.
I also like wikitext more than any of visual UI because it's faster to
type. Also, that kind of comments
:::comment ~~~~ probably can be incorporated into VisualEditor so the
users will see something like LQT
while actual content will be a wikitext. VisualEditor could have
separate scopes or modes for different
NS_* page types.
The exception being pages with large influxes of newbies, like
Project:Support_desk. In those pages LQT really does make a difference
to ensure things are well organized.
--bawolff
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