I asked this on wikimedia-l in the recent discussion with no answer. I was wondering what the status of this feature was ...
- d.
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On 1 September 2014 17:57, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
The same, by the way, goes for VE, which should have had "bail and give me what you have now as wikitext" from the onset, and Flow which needs a "bail and convert this thread to ye olde talkpage thread" (which I fear will be batted away as reactionary crank talk, and "by the time flow will be done unneeded anyway")
By the way:
Is Flow going to support the use case of cut'n'pasting a piece from the article page to the talk page, as a lump of wikitext or as a piece of rich text from VE?
'Cos if it doesn't, I predict that will be the sticking point with the people who actually communicate on talk pages.
- d.
Hi David,
Sorry, I didn't see this question on wikimedia-l. Yes, that use case is important. We've got some ideas about a multi-editable scratchpad space that's attached to the discussion thread -- it's early days on that concept, but as you said, we really need to be able to support drafts, and things like checklists, where multiple people are working through a list of tasks, discussing items and checking them off when they're done. A checklist feature is complicated, so we're a little ways away from that, but I know it's something that we need to build.
In the nearer-term, we're talking about what we need in order to open up editing of other users' comments. There are good reasons to do that; we just need to make some changes to the interface to support it. We'll be talking with interested people about this stuff a lot more over the next couple weeks, to get more ideas and thoughts.
Danny
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:38 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I asked this on wikimedia-l in the recent discussion with no answer. I was wondering what the status of this feature was ...
- d.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Date: 1 September 2014 18:00 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
On 1 September 2014 17:57, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
The same, by the way, goes for VE, which should have had "bail and give
me
what you have now as wikitext" from the onset, and Flow which needs a
"bail
and convert this thread to ye olde talkpage thread" (which I fear will be batted away as reactionary crank talk, and "by the time flow will be done unneeded anyway")
By the way:
Is Flow going to support the use case of cut'n'pasting a piece from the article page to the talk page, as a lump of wikitext or as a piece of rich text from VE?
'Cos if it doesn't, I predict that will be the sticking point with the people who actually communicate on talk pages.
- d.
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