"Simetrical" == Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com writes:
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.
Well I see that boils down to a philosophical question then. I think individual post in a _discussion_ should not be edited, by other users just because it seems to be too messy to sort out, whether the change was appropriate or not. That is how mailing lists and newsgroups work successfully for decades.
Uwe Brauer