On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:27 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 June 2014 19:17, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Personally I have yet to see a discussion system that surpasses (or
> > really even comes close) to standard talk page ":::comment here. ~~~~"
> > syntax. Honestly it would make me happy if we just used that in
> > general.
> > The exception being pages with large influxes of newbies, like
> > Project:Support_desk. In those pages LQT really does make a difference
> > to ensure things are well organized.
>
>
> YMMV. Wikipedia is pretty much enculturated, but RationalWiki gets
> n00bs *all the time* who object to something on a page. You know what
> the most frequent reply involves? "Please learn to sign your
> comments."
>

If auto signatures are the best thing LQT/Flow brings, I have a bad feeling
about it.

--Martijn



>
> Talk pages really aren't a great communication mechanism for non-geeks.
>
> (RW also suffers under a LQT installation that I desperately want to
> kill and would be most pleased to replace with Flow. I'm going to take
> us from 1.19 to 1.23 when that's out and stable. Possibly with the VE
> faff. Will Flow be able to be bolted onto an existing 1.23?)
>
>
> - d.
>
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