>>>> "Ashar" == Ashar Voultoiz
>>>> <hashar(a)altern.org> writes:
Ashar> Uwe Brauer wrote:
Ashar> Talk pages are considered as one block of text and nothing
Ashar> in the database store them as separate messages. Any new
Ashar> modification can add several replies and even modify an
Ashar> existing message. Looks a bit hard to
Hm, I am new to wikipedia, but this sounds a little strange. Do I
understand correctly that I could change an existing message? I
thought like any free/open project wikipedia is under some sort of
version control, because otherwise things could be easily lost.
Ashar> implement that actually (need parsing, ability to changes
Ashar> previous messages in nntp / cancel messages etc..).
But you would agree that this form of communication (via email or
pseudo email) would greatly improve the convenience? Also that seems
to be a different topic, but right now there exit software for so
called virtual campus (in order to present students a unified support
for an academic course; WEBCT and its free counterparts like moodle)
In this environment it is possible to have a sort of local mailing
list for discussions between lecturer and students. May such an
approach could be used for wikipedia?
Ashar> In preferences: "Editing" > check "Use external editor by
Ashar> default" , will send you the file for editing in whatever
Ashar> editor. Not sure how it works exactly though ;)
Ok that is of course another solution. I will try out.
Thanks
Uwe Brauer