" " == Robert Rapplean mythobeast@gmail.com writes:
> Hi, Uwe. I've been working on a consensus building tool for > this purpose, but if you're just looking for something that will > thread conversations it's probably a bit too industrial for your > tastes. The primary problem with threaded message bases is that > they encourage completely off-topic conversations under the > assumption that people can readily ignore the bits that aren't > to their interest. This assumption is somewhat falacious > because the end result is a convoluted conversation structure > where finding the on-topic threads becomes increasingly > difficult, and important points get burried pretty quickly. Hi Robert,
Well yeah could be. However right now, I find the wikipedia talk pages very messy, because sometimes people even sign their messages it is not clear to whom the respond etc. That is partially caused by the lack of discipline of the users partially by the lack of tools which enforces the use of signature and reply-prefix etc.
So even a simple tool, like the CSS entry in the french wikipedia page, is a first step to get the talk pages better organised.
Your tool is an experiment? Is intended to be included in media wiki?
Regards
Uwe