[WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia - Liquid threads

[geni]

On 22 December 2010 12:44, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 December 2010 12:15, WereSpielChequers
> <werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Liquid threads is an interesting idea in principle, but the reality is
>> at best unfortunate. I've pretty much stopped editing on the Strategy
>> Wiki because of it - I have broadband and a reasonably fast machine
>> but I don't have the patience to wait for Liquid threads to load even
>> when it works.
>
>
> Even on tiny wikis it's too much of a PITA in practice. RationalWiki
> tried it and the consensus was "KILL IT WITH FIRE." Which is
> unfortunate, because it's a nice idea. However, a wiki isn't a forum.
>

Facebook is probably working to change that.

TVTropes has forums which see some use:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/topics.php

Wikis with social networking and the like attached can certainly be
successful. See Hudong for example.



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geni