2008/9/6 Angela beesley@gmail.com:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Will will@nabble.com wrote:
I write to you because you don't seem to care much about discussions. On Wikipedia, the "discussion" tab is ubiquitous, but you don't allow people to discuss the subject there because discussions can ONLY be about improving the main page.
You might be better off talking to Wikinewsies than Wikipedians considering Wikinews already does allow discussion about the topic (as opposed to discussion about the article). http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=102 shows pages from their comment namespace, which is used for non-NPOV chat not related to improving the article. There's more information on it here: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Commentary_pages_on_news_events
Something like this would be tempting for Wikipedia articles, but it'd be a BLP and confidential info nightmare on anything controversial ...
- d.