On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:27:56AM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Monday 26 August 2002 12:20 pm, The Cunctator
wrote:
Instead of a wikipedia slash, what we need to
implement is something more
like the Yahoo! Groups, where the mailing list has a straightforward
bulletin board interface, which should be hooked into the Wikipedia user
database.Then we'd start getting somewhere.
With so many posts to this list I think either your idea or mine would be
better than the current situation. Each should be reviewed for their pros and
cons (a big pro for Slashcode is that it is GPL and almost ready to go out of
the box -- or so I've heard).
I oppose moving to a web based application. Those are so limited compared
to a good mail reader with thread support, a kill file for "uninteresting"
threads and an easy way to discover new articles. (No, Netscape Communicator
does not qualify as a good mail user agent). All web based bulletin boards
I've seen up to now can't provide the convenience of a good mail reader.
If I'm overruled and we are going to do it web based, than we should
probably integrate it tightly into the wiki markup, making it possible to
link to articles and to use bold and italic and the other things we are used
to. But we should have a separate "Recent Changes" from the main one!
We already learned from using sourceforge's bug tracking tool that we should
stick to one consistent user interface for everything.
Perhaps we should attempt to use meta to consolidate lengthy or
persistent threads or topics.
We may need to learn some standard patterns for laying
controversial topics in ways that present the top level
consensus overviews and mainstream information while
preserving the radical fringes ability to evolve their
views anyway.
regards,
Mike Irwin