My idea is to transform the discussion pages to a real forum, as known
from phpBB, Woltlab Burning Board or vBulletin.
So each article would have one subforum, in which everyone can create a
new thread. Other users can answer these threads or create new ones. It
should only be possible to edit your own posts but not the ones from others.
The forum structure could be like this:
-Wikipedia Forum
--Wikipedia intern
---Bugreports
---Proposals and criticism
--Articles
---(Subforum for each article)
--Users
---(Subforum for each users)
--Portals
---(Subforum for each portal)
and so on...
I think this way the discussions would be much more effective and
purposeful.
At the the top of each discussion page there could be a notice where you
are at the moment:
You are here: [Wikipedia Forum] -> [Articles] -> [Foobar] -> [Delete
this article?]
The most important thing is that the discussion is really organized in
forums, subforums, threads and posts, EXACTLY the way it is in the known
Burning Boards.
Because currently you hardly find ever a real discussion, i.e. about
feature requests. Many people out there have fantastic ideas how to
improve wikipedia ... so a real discussion forum would be great.
Or when somebody just doesnt understand a part of an article, he could
just start a new thread in the article's forum and get an answer...
Some example for Burning Boards:
http://www.streamboard.to/forum -- Example for vBulletin
http://www.woltlab.de/de/forum/ -- Example for wBB
Whats your opinion?
Frando
P.S. Sorry for my unequivocal improvable English ;)