[dokuwiki] Re: Per-page discussions
- From: Redeeman <redeeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:05:24 +0200
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 09:00 -0500, Joe Lapp wrote:
> > This goes clearly beyond the scope of an Wiki Engine. That's what forums
> > are designed for. You should consider autolinking the wiki to a forum
> > engine or something...
>
> I agree that the wikiness of a wiki engine isn't an ideal substrate for
> discussion functionality, but I don't think it's fair to say that discussions
> are beyond the scope of a wiki engine.
>
> Consider the number of independent discussions that exist on just the
> DokuWiki wiki. Consider that it was important enough for Mediawiki to make
> the feature available from every page (and that there's a discussion
> happening on virtually every Mediawiki page). Even just in the abstract, the
> idea of people collaborating to produce a common product requires easy
> communication separately from the product; wikis virtually *require*
> discussion forums.
>
> Perhaps if we don't want to build a thorough discussion solution on a wiki
> substrate, we could provide out-of-the-box hooks for integrating DokuWiki
> with one or more dedicated discussion engines.
>
> Besides, I think DokuWiki would be an easier sell if it had some form of
> inherent discussion support. I personally bulk at recommending DokuWiki to
> serve the city of Austin because of its absence, and yet I'm a hardcore
> DokuWiki fan using DokuWiki for my own purposes.
>
i use dokuwiki because it isnt as big, and cluttered as stuff like media
wiki.. i wouldnt like having stuff like discussion stuff and such.. its
easy just to link to a phpbb forum..
> ~joe
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