On 06.06.2014 22:17, Brian Wolff wrote:
On 6/6/14, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjorsch@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
So I want to know:
- What are the blockers for doing this?
- Are there any use cases / killer features in LiquidThreads that are
not in Flow that need to be ported over?
Flow doesn't support actual threaded discussions beyond a very limited depth,[1] meaning that a real threaded discussion is likely to turn into a morass of comments without clear indication of what is replying to what unless people actively work around it.[2] Since converted LQT threads are likely to lack the quoting necessary to work around this misfeature, they're particularly liable to wind up unreadable if they're at all complex.
Also, bug 57512 comment 31 could use a reply.[3]
[1]: Although this is a matter of configuration rather than something hard-coded, I doubt the configuration is going to be changed. [2]: I won't go into more detail here about this or about why pings (as Flow encourages to work around the misfeature) aren't sufficient. [3]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57512#c31 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Personally I have yet to see a discussion system that surpasses (or really even comes close) to standard talk page ":::comment here. ~~~~" syntax. Honestly it would make me happy if we just used that in general.
I also like wikitext more than any of visual UI because it's faster to type. Also, that kind of comments :::comment ~~~~ probably can be incorporated into VisualEditor so the users will see something like LQT while actual content will be a wikitext. VisualEditor could have separate scopes or modes for different NS_* page types.
The exception being pages with large influxes of newbies, like Project:Support_desk. In those pages LQT really does make a difference to ensure things are well organized.
--bawolff
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