Re: Debian is testing Discourse
On Thu 23 Apr 2020 at 10:21:57 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 08:07:55PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > I do not have a TODO list, but pushing all wiki issues onto debian-www
> > probably wasn't the best of ideas. It seems to me that discourse would
> > be a good place to put them.
>
> I think the mistake was trying to drive discussion about the wiki *away*
> from the wiki. Pushing it to Discourse instead of debian-www@ would not be
> an improvement in that respect.
>
> > At the same time, what is the point of discusssion? A user thinks a
> > technical point on the wiki is wrong; they know it is wrong; they change
> > it. Where's the problem?
>
> Discussion pages serve as the place to discuss planning what goes where,
> explaining changes that might be obvious, asking questions about the content
> of a page e.g. phrasing to establish whether there's a mistake or something
> should be reworded for clarity, etc.
>
> Take a look at "Talk" pages on a large Mediawiki instance (E.g. Wikipedia)
> to see how they can be used. Here's an example
> <https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Talk:DOOM.WAD>
Discourse would provide a single point of contact for wiki discussion.
That's a step up on what we have at present and is (I assume) very easy
to implement.
Does MoinMoin even allow for Discussion pages in an easy way?
--
Brian.
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