[Wikitech-l] Re: the discussion page: summary and better display of the treats, mbox format?

Rowan> This has been discussed before (I haven't any links to hand, Rowan> but the usual Googling with "site:mail.wikipedia.org" should I did not find any of these, most likely my googling ability is poor. Rowan> turn things up from these lists), but the central problem is Rowan> that the current setup has no internal representation of a Rowan> single thread, let alone a single comment, only of a whole Rowan> page (roughly equivalent to a forum, or a mailbox). The Rowan> individual threads could potentially be interpretted out by Rowan> looking at headers, though these aren't used entirely Rowan> consistently, but it would require quite complex and Rowan> unreliable pattern matching to separate what humans can Rowan> easily see as the individual comments. Right, that is what I thought. Rowan> Furthermore, this is in some ways an *advantage* - all the Rowan> old-fashioned wiki processes, like refactoring and so on, Rowan> can take place on the discussion page, unrestricted by Rowan> structure imposed by the software. One intriguing compromise Rowan> was the "LiquidThreads" proposal, at Rowan> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LiquidThreads, but I'd Rowan> consider it more of an "idea" than a "planned feature"... The idea sounds appealing and I would support it, however nothing has been implemented so far, as I understand Uwe