On Jan 24, 2008 6:22 AM, Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> wrote:
Ok I see the point, however in my experience MediaWiki
conventions are
not so important in discussion, where besides the 2 aims I mentioned
I should add another one:
- one cannot edit other people comments
The ability to edit other people's comments (in, of course, an
obvious, traceable, and reversible manner) is desirable, and should be
present in any discussion system attached to a wiki. It may be useful
to edit other people's posts for a wide variety of reasons, such as
incorrect formatting, or policies like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RPA . Inappropriate editing of posts
can be reversed and, if necessary, penalized.
Lack of focus on logging and transparency is generally a significant
problem with standard forum software in the context of wiki
integration, which probably makes any mainstream forum package
undesirable for integration with MediaWiki.