On 27/08/06, Oskar Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/27/06, Steve Bennett
<stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)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!
--Keitei