On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am not married to the idea of using Wikitext, but I
don't see the benefit
in making an irreversible change in discussion software to a forum that is
intended to be a core, Wikimedia/Mediawiki-wide site (comparable to Meta
and Commons and Wikidata) by applying software that isn't ready for prime
time.
As long as the structure of the conversation is stored by the new
system (and I think both LQT and Flow do that - using a graph of what
is a reply to what?) the presentation we have for this structure can
be improved over time, or we can even have multiple ways for viewing a
given conversation (e.g. with infinite indentation, completelly plain,
limited indentation, flow's-new style, whatever). This is like the
four "View by" options at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/
I don't like the current "limited indentation" view implemented in
Flow, but I like even less the lack of (semantic) structure of
wikitext conversations. The ":"s are converted to <dl>s and <dt>s
by
MediaWiki, and this breaks every time someone adds an extra new line
between comments (to tell apart one comment from the next) or when
someone whants to discuss a table or a template.
Best regards,
Helder