Erik Moeller wrote:
I just saw that Tax Almanac, a MediaWiki customized by Intuit software, has a very interesting integrated discussion system:
http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Discussion_Forum_Index
It uses normal wiki pages in the "Discussion:" namespace to store the threads, and stores the comments themselves as parametrized templates within these pages. But the user interface looks like any ordinary bulletin board.
That is indeed interesting; however from a software engineering point of view it is extremely hacky and probably hard to maintain. I strongly recommend against using this in official MediaWiki.
Timwi