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.
Though I do often get involved in alternative editing ideas. Typically this kind of thing is either done by creating a special interface (or altering the normal interface) to merge multiple pages together. Or using some syntax inside the page to break up the content.
What kind of features would the proposal offer. Listing out the small features normally helps pick out the best method of implementation.
Firstly, should each point have an area where it can be discussed? Should that be limited to a case point/rebutal pair? Or should there only be one discussion for an entire full case?
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Mark Reginald James wrote:
Hi,
Media Wiki is a great democratic tool, allowing anyone to easily create beautiful content. But it has the potential to also become an important tool *for* a democracy, by allowing complex disputed cases to be closely argued and clearly explained.
To best support this, it would appear that a new mode needs to be added to Media Wiki that displays a pair of hierarchically- expandable wiki streams side-by-side.
An example of what I'm suggesting can be seen at makethecase.net, a site I created over five years ago using a now obsolete system (and some rather primitive HTML skills). Though I'm now a proficient Ruby on Rails programmer, I think it would be better to create an updated system using Media Wiki, the premier modern CMS. However I don't know much about PHP, so am looking for anyone who would like to work alone, with me, or with others, to make this a reality.
To this end, I've created a bug report for this enhancement: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15423
I really think this would be a useful tool that would complement Wikipedia, as I argued here: http://makethecase.net/why.html .
Regards,
Mark