On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 14:13:49 -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, April 24, 2020 12:40:56 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 24 Apr 2020 at 08:24:44 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:59:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Jo, 23 apr 20, 18:43:25, Brian wrote: > > > > > Does MoinMoin even allow for Discussion pages in an easy way? > > > > > > > > It's easy to add. The FAQ in my signature has an example, probably just > > > > copied from some other page. > > > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser > > > > > > The raw text on the page in question includes this table: > > > ||<tablestyle="width: 100%;" style="border: 0px hidden">~-Translation(s): > > > ||English - [[it/FAQsFromDebianUser|Italiano]] - > > > ||[[fr/FAQsFromDebianUser|Français]]-~||<style="text-align: > > > ||right;border: 0px hidden"> (!) [[/Discussion|Discussion]]|| > > > > > > In other words, the page author(s) added the link to a "Discussion" > > > subpage manually for this page only. This would have to be done for > > > each page where you would like people to contribute to a Discussion. > > > > Indeed it would. But useful nevertheless, surely? > > And, if MoinMoin allows templates to start new pages (some wikis do -- > Foswiki > / TWiki for instance), the template could contain the text / code to create a > link to a discussion page (and maybe create the discussion page, as well, > which in many wikis just requires that a link to even a non-existent page > will > create that page on clicking the link (Foswiki / TWiki again).
I think MoinMoin does allow that, so those who want discussion can set it up and sit back and talk. The claimed overwhelming quality of the Arch Wiki pages, as promoted by a number of users, has yet to be substantiated. -- Brian.
