+1.... exactly There are 3 basic kinds of dialog - ** editors and participants actively hoping to improve the article; ** feedback that is intended to have a decent proportion of useful comments and can be sifted for them quickly; and ** "chat about the topic, article, and anything else people get into".
However you label them, whatever means and venue we were to use, the third of those is where the question mark goes. FT2 On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Sure; if the objective is to have comments by "people who are interested in > the subject, can identify the relevant venue, can identify how to edit the > relevant venue, are aware that they *can* edit, can handle wikimarkup and > can deal with the fact that a lot of editors see "wide-ranging discussions > on a subject" as utterly irrelevant and subject to removal unless they > directly suggest alterations to the article content" instead of, well, > "people who are interested in the subject". > > On 24 January 2012 23:05, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > > > On 01/22/12 3:44 PM, David Gerard wrote: > > > >> On 22 January 2012 23:39, Svip<svi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> The name 'talk page' is also a terrible name and very ambiguous as to > >>> what it is. A far more appropriate candidate for such a page's name > >>> would be 'collaboration page', 'work page', 'improvement page' and so > >>> on. > >>> > >> English Wikinews calls it "collaboration". On English Wikipedia it > >> used to be called "talk", this was changed to "discussion", and it was > >> recently changed back to "talk". > >> > >> > >> I don't care what you call it. The talk page is still the best place > for > > wide ranging discussions on a subject. > > > > > > Ray > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l> > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
