On 22 January 2012 22:31, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Besides this, another disadvantage of the current "Talk" tab is it > uses the wiki way to talk, not the typical "comment section" we see > under every YouTube video, Flickr image, Facebook status update, etc. > The wiki way to talk may be favored by the Wikipedia community, but is > really weird to the general public.
There has been some work done on ways to improve our talk page interface, although nothing has ever been finished. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LiquidThreads_3.0 for some info. > The unique merit of using Wikipedia as a discussion place is its > uniqueness. There are many "cat forums" on the Web, but they're > scattered all over the Web; in contrast, the Wikipedia article [[Cat]] > is a unique and prominent place for the topic "cat". If people want to > go to a centralized, unified place to talk about cats, they should > come to [[Cat]]. Obligatory xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/927/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l