On Wiki (i.e. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki), the one that started it all, it had been long a convention to move all discussion to separate Discussion pages. So, for a given PageName, the discussion would be punted to PageNameDiscussion.
--ss
On 4/2/07, Nicholas Moreau nicholasmoreau@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, maybe it wasn't you, but I remember hearing (don't remember the source) that before Wikipedia was launched, everybody discussed everything on the mainpage, mainly because there was no talk page feature. I guess
I'm
just spreading stories.
Nick
On 4/2/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Nicholas Moreau wrote:
Yes...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Sesame_Street&action=hist...
Or are you meaning the actual steps that led to the creation of history pages--I believe it was one of Brion Vibber's first major additions to the MediaWiki software.
Eh... no? That not only predates my involvement, it predates the existence of Wikipedia.
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