X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/9289f684bb4fb90acb06013b2059cfb92c7fe354..a163e87f7a5b4bbe01733b3da7e10589e8f21b95:/doc/todo/discussion_page_as_blog.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/todo/discussion_page_as_blog.mdwn b/doc/todo/discussion_page_as_blog.mdwn index eb11caac1..02c300bda 100644 --- a/doc/todo/discussion_page_as_blog.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/discussion_page_as_blog.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,29 @@ -Look at a discussion page here or eg on wikipedia. It tends to turn into a mess. One nice way to avoid the mess would be to set it a discussion page as a blog so each new comment is a separate post. +Look at a discussion page here or eg on wikipedia. It tends to turn into a +mess. One nice way to avoid the mess would be to set it a discussion page +as a blog so each new comment is a separate post. -One issue is, would there be a way to do this for all new discussion pages by default somehow? Setting up the blog means inserting a preprocessor directive; and that could somehow happen automatically when the discussion page is first created. (Creating a bunch of empty discussion pages with such directives ahead of time would be silly.) Maybe some kind of new page template system would do the trick, so pages matching */Discussion start off as a clone of DiscussionTemplate. Although the first person to -try to create the discussion page would still end up in an edit page with that template, which is not ideal. Hmm. +One issue is, would there be a way to do this for all new discussion pages +by default somehow? Setting up the blog means inserting a preprocessor +directive; and that could somehow happen automatically when the discussion +page is first created. (Creating a bunch of empty discussion pages with +such directives ahead of time would be silly.) Maybe some kind of new page +template system would do the trick, so pages matching */Discussion start +off as a clone of DiscussionTemplate. Although the first person to try to +create the discussion page would still end up in an edit page with that +template, which is not ideal. Hmm. -Another issue is that discussions really want to be threaded. Does that mean that a page like foo/discussion/question should have its own foo/discussion/question/(discussion?)/answer page? Of course, rss feeds don't handle threading, and of course doing this might be dependant on the issue above. Worrying about threading may be overkill. \ No newline at end of file +Thinking about this some more, discussion links for pages that don't yet +have discussion could go directly to the ikiwiki cgi, which could provide a +post form, and create a new discussion page with the necessary inlining. + +Another issue is that discussions really want to be threaded. Does that +mean that a page like foo/discussion/question should have its own +foo/discussion/question/(discussion?)/answer page? Of course, rss feeds +don't handle threading, and of course doing this might be dependant on the +issue above. Worrying about threading may be overkill. + +> Something like [[sandbox/castle]] and [[sandbox/castle/discussion]]? (Sorry about the noise, btw.) --Ethan + +I don't think that the nesting is very clear, I found it confusing.. + +[[tag soc]]