Hello
When I wrote about the lack of threading capabilities in the WikiPedia discussion page, I had only experience with relative low frequented discussions pages, for which the Wikipedia software was uncomfortable but still ok. However now I am on discussion page with a lot of hot debated contributions. That is a sort of nightmare, since a lot of people are editing that page at the same time, try to chance the outline and as a result contributions get either malformed or changed or even deleted in short it is a PITA.
So I would like to know.
- is it possible to use for example parts of the software of the moodle project http://moodle.org. That is open software for course management. Every course has its own, mailing list like, discussion page. Now the parallels to wikipedia seem obvious course=article. However in reality can that software be used for wikipedia?
- Would it be possible that instead of providing a link to a discussion page, provide a link to a corresponding *newsgroup*. That is every article page should have its newsgroup (or mailing list if that would be easier.)
Regards
Uwe Brauer