On 20/01/16 17:58, Andrea Zanni wrote:
If there is consensus, I can propose Wikisource-l for a test. Just tell me.


I'm supportive. Don't know if there's consensus yet. Nemo, have you had any experience using Discourse just via email? Would it work for you that way? (i.e. then doesn't involve any javascript).

I think I read somewhere recently that Mozilla or someone is supporting Discourse in improving the mail interface. is that true, anyone know?



On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:57 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate Discourse because it doesn't work without JavaScript. Every time I
> end up on a discourse website I end up crying.
>
> Last time I checked, it also didn't have particularly good export features.
> I thought I had added to
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software but
> seems not, maybe was another wiki.

A raw dump (including all metadata) export functionality should be a
hard requirement for any software put into production in Wikimedia.


I absolutely agree. One thing I'd note, too, is that (in my experience of managing a few over the years) Mailman is anything but easy to archive well (at least not without server access). I *think* Discourse has a sensible API, so at least theoretically one needn't leave the archiving up to the sysadmins.