Well, Talk pages are supposed to be discussion of the content of the article, not discussion of the topic per se. Secondly, I supposed I was interested in the possibilities for enabling MediaWiki to be used for smaller communities that do more than just create an encyclopedia (i.e. record information) but actually debate and discuss things. In that context, seeing a list of people's personal views on a topic might be interesting. And personal views can always be potentially combined into an article (assuming that the view is sufficiently common, or the person expressing the view is sufficiently important) in that MediaWiki's universe (which might potentially follow a different topic focus or POV rules from Wikipedia.)

Cheers Simon

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:19:05 +0000 (UTC), wikitech-l-request@wikimedia.org wikitech-l-request@wikimedia.org wrote:

Message: 4 Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:20:11 +0200 From: Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] Re: Wikipedia Personal Views To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4130A2AB.9000403@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

I am curious... why would personal views interest a reader ?

And talk pages already exist for this I think...

Ant