On 02/11/05, Jan-Paul Köster Jan-Paul@jpkoester.de wrote:
So what's my opinion? I am in favor of keeping the discussion pages wiki style, refactorable, editable by all but as Timwi proposed adding a "This comment was last edited on <timestamp> by <username> which will allow other users to easily spot any abuse while keeping all wiki-advantages.
Well, the problem is, you can't have a page which is both "completely refactorable" and consists of comments which can be labelled automatically by the software. Either, as currently, pages are essentially atomic to the software (it can't "see" individual comments, just lots of versions of the whole page), or the concept of "a comment" is given significance to the software, and edits to it can be tracked, locked, or whatever. The challenge, surely, is to come up with a compromise between these two positions - just making individual comments into wiki pages is not enough, because you can't, in general, refactor one comment.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]