Hi all,
With the Foundation’s support, I’ve spent the last few months churning away at LiquidThreads, a new discussion system that is proposed for use on Wikimedia projects.
Essentially, it’s an attempt to marry the radical openness of the wiki paradigm with the usability and practicality of a forum-like system. As the name implies, LiquidThreads is designed [...]
Since my last post about LiquidThreads, I’ve given it a major visual makeover, making it much prettier, and more in line with what users are used to with comment threads, forums, and other similar software.
Here’s an overview of the new interface
The new interface relies on paging, rather than archiving. Instead of artificially removing a discussion [...]
Wikimedia sites will know very well the pains of managing discussion in a MediaWiki installation. Presently, like a lot of early MediaWiki, it’s a hacked together solution — make the discussion pages editable, add some niceties like signatures (with the date/time and user who made the edit), and a button at the top for creating [...]