In general, you can use what children understand or do not understand as good indicator of user friendliness in general, even it comes to grown-ups :-)
In my view, the point you raise is a general issue. Also grown-ups have to figure out how to communicate with others users in a Mediawiki environment and it is a barrier. For articles it seems ok. For user discussion it only allows those through that really want to. It puzzled me when I first approached Mediawiki
Also, the idea that a dialog hops back and forth between different user pages is as such somewhat strange. It more or less requires that you rss the approriate history pages to keep up with answers you get. Or at least that was I figured out. I have 5-10 different rss's running for 5-10 different wikis where I asked for this and that when I was first investigating Mediawiki as a solution for my project - ...
I wonder if someone out there have experiences with extensions that address these issues - or if something is planned for future versions of Mediawiki. LiquidThreads looks like something that could be useful - but it also looks like a big beast ...
kassoe
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Charlotte Webb Sent: 15. oktober 2008 17:00 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Children don't understand the Discussion tab
On 10/15/08, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
remove these lines from "/skins/monobook/main.css"
Or of course you could over-ride it in [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] with:
#p-cactions li a { text-transform: none; }
-C.W.
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