[cap-talk] Wiki for discussion?? (was Re: cap-talk infrastructure problem?)

[Kevin Reid]

On Dec 6, 2006, at 16:26, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> The right solution to this is going to be moving to a wiki. We need to
> set one up for The EROS Group anyway, and I was going to raise the
> possibility next week. I didn't want to say anything until our wiki
> evaluation process was completed, because asking people what wiki they
> like is about as productive as asking them why everybody doesn't just
> program in FORTH like Real Programmers do.

Um, a wiki is not at all suitable for replacing a mailing list. Wikis  
are not good for discussion, because they do not work in terms of  
messages, unread-message tracking, and the immutable history they  
track is of changes, not messages.

I, at least, would far rather stick with silently discarded messages  
for cap-talk and e-lang than move to an awkward-to-use system.

The best existing web application for discussion purposes that I can  
think of would be multi-author, external-comment-less weblog system,  
or possibly a low-annoying-feature 'forum' with feeds.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>