On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not married to the idea of using Wikitext, but I don't see the benefit > in making an irreversible change in discussion software to a forum that is > intended to be a core, Wikimedia/Mediawiki-wide site (comparable to Meta > and Commons and Wikidata) by applying software that isn't ready for prime > time.
As long as the structure of the conversation is stored by the new system (and I think both LQT and Flow do that - using a graph of what is a reply to what?) the presentation we have for this structure can be improved over time, or we can even have multiple ways for viewing a given conversation (e.g. with infinite indentation, completelly plain, limited indentation, flow's-new style, whatever). This is like the four "View by" options at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/ I don't like the current "limited indentation" view implemented in Flow, but I like even less the lack of (semantic) structure of wikitext conversations. The ":"s are converted to <dl>s and <dt>s by MediaWiki, and this breaks every time someone adds an extra new line between comments (to tell apart one comment from the next) or when someone whants to discuss a table or a template. Best regards, Helder _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
