On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gwern Branwen<gwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, the best way forward is probably to improve talk pages. They've > already proven that they can go the distance; so 'all' that's needed Well, i think we still have a long way to go before we've successfully copied that oldest of wiki formats, the Talmud and its ilk -- and that works for more than talk pages! > Web forums and Reddit pages are a good example of this: in theory they > should work just as fine as talk pages, since they need not ever > close, and forum threads can be 'stickied' to make them as permanently Have you tried Diigo? Any thoughts on that sort of interface? > I'm actually not too enthused about Google Wave for this purpose. > Watching the demo, the entire thing seems optimized for short waves > with minimal nesting. The history scroll thing is no good for, say, > Talk:Jesus, and the comment boxes are all very small and so discourage > any in-depth discussion. But this may just be a question of implementing the right interface to a generic sort of tool. The spec doesn't say anythinga bout how to visualize history scrolling or comment boxes. S _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
