[Mediawiki-l] Children don't understand the Discussion tab

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Tuesday 14 October 2008 19:30, Wikimini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First, sorry for my poor english. I hope you will understand our problem.
>
> I'm running a wiki for young children. Most of them don't understand the
> exact meaning (or function) of the "Discussion" tab.
>
>
> # PROBLEM :
>
> Actually their problem seems to be the following :
>
> The "Discussion" tab has two VERY different functions:
>
> 1) When it appears on an article (or another page) :
>
> FUNCTION = TALK ABOUT THE PAGE/ARTICLE

It doesn't have to, though.

That's merely a convention used by some wikis, but is in no way mandated by 
MediaWiki.

There's no reason why the discussion tab can't be for discussion about the 
SUBJECT rather than the PAGE.

-- 
Kurt Weber
http://blog.kurtweber.us
<kmw at kurtweber.us>