Erik Moeller wrote:
I just saw that Tax Almanac, a MediaWiki customized by
Intuit
software, has a very interesting integrated discussion system:
http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Discussion_Forum_Index
It uses normal wiki pages in the "Discussion:" namespace to store the
threads, and stores the comments themselves as parametrized templates
within these pages. But the user interface looks like any ordinary
bulletin board.
That is indeed interesting; however from a software engineering point of
view it is extremely hacky and probably hard to maintain. I strongly
recommend against using this in official MediaWiki.
Timwi