On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:33 AM, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 9 June 2014 11:28, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM, James Forrester < > jforres...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > >> You think people want dual inheritance for comments? Seriously? > >> That's… (to be polite) completely insane as a discussion system from a > >> user perspective, and perhaps more importantly for your argument, > >> completely not something that happens right now in MediaWiki > >> conversations. > > > > You generally see them in the form > > > > ::@namex @namey @namez Lorem ipsum > > Ah, right. Flow already supports pinging people in replies in exactly > this fashion, which is a lot more free-form, flexible and > understandable for users than trying to get people to build a DAG each > time they comment. > > Yes, I have no idea how to display a DAG in an orderly fashion, let alone make it usable for an end user in a discussion system. In this case, which post are you replying to in flow when you reply to multiple people? In mediawiki you sort of work around the issue, and it sort of works because you try to create some ad-hoc solution. When the software creates a hard dependency between posts, where it is difficult now to keep track of these kinds of discussion, it may become even more difficult to follow them then. Since we've established that this is something that currently does happen, I think even if it is (to be polite (?)) completely insane, it's something that should be supported anyway. -- Martijn > J. > -- > James D. Forrester > Product Manager, VisualEditor > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
