No, it doesn't. We tried several different approaches to threaded discussions with the standard Mediawiki framework and none of them seemed effective for the complexity they required. At one point we had a drop down menu above the textbox that was populated with the section names of the discussion page and you could post a comment any particular section. For our purposes, it was overkill and ended up confusing enough of our users that we took it out and went back to a single-thread model.
This extension is by no means meant to be an extensive solution to discussion page problems (I'll leave that to Liquid threads), it's just a simple extension that works for smaller wikis. So far we've had over 150,000 talk page messages posted with it and our community seems to like its simplicity.
Travis
On 3/9/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, I can see why that might be misleading. To respond to the post, users just have to go use the textarea at the bottom, but to reply to a user directly, you can click on that link. Most of our users respond to each other's talk page on a discussion so the new messages indicator lights up for them, and this link comes in handy for that.
It seems this extension doesn't support threaded discussion, which limits its usefulness.
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