On 6/6/14, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 06/06/2014 20:17, Brian Wolff a écrit : >> 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. > > Hello, > > On the other side, the super long wikitext garbage on long talk pages is > the exact reason I stopped being involved in the community and never > ever read talk pages. > > Receiving a watchlist notification because some other part of the talk > page got changed (albeit I never contributed to that sub discussion) > makes it nearly impossible to follow-up on replies. And I am probably > not the only one. > > > Structuring the conversations will let us add worthwhile features such > as ignoring/hiding a sub thread, getting notifications. Or heck even a > talk page / mail gateway to reply by email! > > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
To clarify, I'm not saying that "::comment ~~~~" is good. It just seems like the best out of a lot of really bad existing choices. But obviously different people are going to value different things in a discussion system and come to different conclusions. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
