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Collaborating in the wiki
Talk_page
Actually that is a mess to maintain :)
Responses have to be indented by hand, and user have to note down his name in wiki, and possibly time of editing. We need strong comments system, well integrated in the pages.
How do we use a talk page now?
- a non-logged might let know the documenters that a part is missing, or wrong
- people with an account might discuss things
- someone uses talk pages as backend of the real page
The first link on this list is a useful extension to add comments from the page itself, that append comments in the talk page with username, date and a good formatting. The talk_page remains editable, so this is the best option I see to speed up conversations. It doesn't thread comments with sindentation tho.
Talk_page comments policy
I saw some "comments policy" around the web, stating something like "good comments will be used inside the page, and then erased, no offense".
I would use such a comments policy stating that comments have a maximum duration, and they _might_ be erased after that, or placed in some Attic section or so.
If we enforce the use of a comment system, which automatically places a date and user name on comments, we could erase old comments, and so avoiding to have cluttered talk pages.
But, how to find out pages with new comments? A server script to parse wiki pages? Is there a feature like this in wiki?
If we agree on letting anonymous access to talkpages, that should be writing only, to avoid that anonymous people remove good and new comments. In this case only editors/sysops might erase content in talk pages.
Talk_page structure
If the Talk_page has the same structure as the Page, people could comment under relevant section.
How could we do this?
Here: http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#examples each title has the anchor, it appears when you hover the mouse over the titles
I'd like to have such a link, NOT as anchor to the title (we have that link in the table of contents) but as a link to the relevant section in the talk page.
To give the example :) I have made it for this proposal pages.
<bebraw> i can see the utility of py solution <bebraw> it's probably just a tiny hack (extension even) for mediawiki
