On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gwern Branwengwern0@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, the best way forward is probably to improve talk pages. They've already proven that they can go the distance; so 'all' that's needed
Well, i think we still have a long way to go before we've successfully copied that oldest of wiki formats, the Talmud and its ilk -- and that works for more than talk pages!
Web forums and Reddit pages are a good example of this: in theory they should work just as fine as talk pages, since they need not ever close, and forum threads can be 'stickied' to make them as permanently
Have you tried Diigo? Any thoughts on that sort of interface?
I'm actually not too enthused about Google Wave for this purpose. Watching the demo, the entire thing seems optimized for short waves with minimal nesting. The history scroll thing is no good for, say, Talk:Jesus, and the comment boxes are all very small and so discourage any in-depth discussion.
But this may just be a question of implementing the right interface to a generic sort of tool. The spec doesn't say anythinga bout how to visualize history scrolling or comment boxes.
S