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