On Jan 24, 2008 6:22 AM, Uwe Brauer oub@mat.ucm.es wrote:
Ok I see the point, however in my experience MediaWiki conventions are not so important in discussion, where besides the 2 aims I mentioned I should add another one:
- one cannot edit other people comments
The ability to edit other people's comments (in, of course, an obvious, traceable, and reversible manner) is desirable, and should be present in any discussion system attached to a wiki. It may be useful to edit other people's posts for a wide variety of reasons, such as incorrect formatting, or policies like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RPA . Inappropriate editing of posts can be reversed and, if necessary, penalized.
Lack of focus on logging and transparency is generally a significant problem with standard forum software in the context of wiki integration, which probably makes any mainstream forum package undesirable for integration with MediaWiki.