On Thu 23 Apr 2020 at 10:21:57 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 08:07:55PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > I do not have a TODO list, but pushing all wiki issues onto debian-www > > probably wasn't the best of ideas. It seems to me that discourse would > > be a good place to put them. > > I think the mistake was trying to drive discussion about the wiki *away* > from the wiki. Pushing it to Discourse instead of debian-www@ would not be > an improvement in that respect. > > > At the same time, what is the point of discusssion? A user thinks a > > technical point on the wiki is wrong; they know it is wrong; they change > > it. Where's the problem? > > Discussion pages serve as the place to discuss planning what goes where, > explaining changes that might be obvious, asking questions about the content > of a page e.g. phrasing to establish whether there's a mistake or something > should be reworded for clarity, etc. > > Take a look at "Talk" pages on a large Mediawiki instance (E.g. Wikipedia) > to see how they can be used. Here's an example > <https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Talk:DOOM.WAD>
Discourse would provide a single point of contact for wiki discussion. That's a step up on what we have at present and is (I assume) very easy to implement. Does MoinMoin even allow for Discussion pages in an easy way? -- Brian.