On 6 September 2014 05:49, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Fundamentally, there's one key question to answer for talk pages in Wikimedia projects: Do we want discussions to occur in document mode, or in a structured comment mode?
I rather think the more fundamental question is (for any software solution) "does this tool enable us to build the encyclopedia, better than its predecessor?".
- Update author names after a username change without having to update documents
So if I say in a discussion in which you participated, much earlier, "I agree with what Eloqeunce said", and you subsequently change your user name to ErikM, my comment would be made nonsensical?