On 11/20/05, Uwe Brauer <oub(a)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.