Daniel Friesen wrote:
You do have an interesting idea. However,
it's not something that would
work as a built in to MediaWiki.
MediaWiki internally has a hardwired one title, to one active revison,
which contains one blob of text.
Daniel, I'd assumed that some new core support would be required.
But my bug has now been re-classified as an extension request, so
perhaps it can instead be accommodated as an extension.
The concept may indeed be compatible with one title, one revision,
and one text. The only thing that may not be supported is the ability
to have separate permissions for changing the pro and con texts
on pages that are not freely editable. Perhaps this does in fact
require separate revisions, meaning that a single point-counterpoint
page would actually require the fusion of two wiki pages.
MediaWiki is meant to be completely open, and so it really doesn't
support per-page permissions for different groups. So the permissions
part doesn't matter to much.