[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Talk pages redesign proposal

Tue Jan 7 17:24:43 UTC 2003

This is an issue for wikipedia-l, not wikitech-l.
There's no need to give sysops the ability to delete posts. Either everyone
should be able to delete posts, or noone.

On 1/7/03 12:13 PM, "Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <taw at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Current talk pages are extremely unfriendly.
> I think they should be abandoned and replaced by
> more "natural" system of posting.
> 
> Article would contain: "Comment this article" and "View comments"
> links, with second present only if there are any.
> Occasional readers would be more willing to comment articles that way,
> with interface they are more familiar with.
> 
> Every comment would contain posting user name (or "Anonymous"), date,
> and "Reply" post.
> 
> Unlike K5, we don't want to keep posts forever, so
> some magic would be necessary to take care of old posts.
> Automatic expiration wouldn't be any good - some issues are
> resolved very quickly, others may stay for months.
> 
> I think that posts should have 3 states: current, old and deleted.
> Everyone should be able to move posts between current and old status,
> and sysops should be able to delete and undelete posts.
> Old posts should not be displayed in defalt "View comments",
> (some "Show also old comments" link should be provided), and
> deleted posts should be visible only to sysops.
> 
> Markup should be interpretted normally in posts, but
> some extra care should be taken that no formatting bomb
> will be placed in them.
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