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

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 19:13 -0500, Kevin Reid wrote:
> 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.

Kevin:

Systems like Drupal and Plone have some very good modules designed to do
just this kind of interaction.

> 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 real issue isn't discarded messages. It's inability to effectively
organize the discussion threads.

> 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.

This is the type of thing I have in mind.

shap