Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
My snap reaction is that you need one column, with a
stack of two-column
grafs floating in it: you want subjects to stay together in their start
points.
I ended up introducing <debate>, <contended>, and <rebuttal> tags
that allow an editor to control the appearance of the rebuttal
column. A page without any rebuttals is just a normal full-width
page. This would allow these tags to be used on other wikis --
wherever it is useful to allow sections of text to be prominently
disputed.
I was trying to do away with the <debate> tag, allowing abutting
<contended> sections to be automatically detected, but this
required some hacking of the core parser to give the required
context information.
The resulting extension is here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Debate
Thanks to everyone for getting me kick-started with PHP and MW
development.
Mark