On Aug 27, 2006, at 16:37, David Gerard wrote:
On 27/08/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/27/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/26/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
I don't really know what that format would be. A forum? A wiki- style page (which there are plenty of on wikipedia)? A newsgroup (which is
Wikis are crap for having actual conversations.
I'd say that that depends on the conversation. If there is a long, drawn-out discussion with many parties, than yeah, it's crap. However for purposes of having a talk-page (atleast a talk-page about a relatively non-controversial topic), it's awesome. Comments like "Statement X sounds wierd to me, can somebody source it?" or something similar (which is what is contained in the vast majority of wikipedia talk-pages), comments which draws only a few replies works very well on wikis. Honestly, I can't think of a better format for them.
There's a Forum extension for Mediawiki which does pretty well on Uncyclopedia. Check http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/DUMP .
- d.
The problem is that DPLforum is extremely expensive for the server. I've found there is no way in hell to convince the devs to implement it on en.wp. We can always keep trying though!