On 11/20/05, Uwe Brauer oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:
Gregory> Part of the point is that all pages should have a single Gregory> talk area available so that users have a nice consistent Gregory> way to discuss the article. Many pages talks are used Gregory> infrequently but they are still used.... a non-wiki talk Gregory> page would just become a spam trap as users couldn't Gregory> remove spam as they do today. Personally I don't find Gregory> mailinglists or newsgroups any more convenient, and I Gregory> think the wiki editing practice is much needed by our Gregory> users.
Oops you have not been on wiki-discussion pages say of size 0.2 M, which frequent comments. Just to add a comment to check whether I have used the wikipedia syntax correctly is not very time consuming (but the small delay gives me an excuse to complain).
Sure I've been on large talk pages, thought I generally archive off the inactive sections once they get that large!
- I can write this reply change its format indenting and the like at will,
You can change the indenting on a wikipage, and someone walking into a discussion later doesn't need to waste their time seeing 100x duplication of text as people quote it since there is only one topmost copy.
- and have not to bother whether my reply gets edited
Sorry, but the communities need to remove spam and to refactor and otherwise focus conversations trumps your paranoia about your comments being edited.
If we distrust our fellow editors so much that we must worry about them editing our comments on a system that preserves complete revision history, then we have already lost and should just give up.
- and the list offer me a reasonable threading such that I can find my posting and the relevant answers in an instant.
Whats wrong with searching for your signature or reading in diff mode?
And these points you don't find convenient?
I don't think any of them are sufficiently compelling or unachievable with the existing behavior that a change would be justified.