[support] current wiki tools in drupal - talk vs comments

[Ari Davidow]

> Regarding "Talk" -- from a UI perspective I think it is one of the worst
> things about mediawiki. I think that Drupal's stock comments implementation
> on the same page as the node is much better than having a talk page on a
> separate page.


We may have to disagree here. I think of the "talk" page as a place for
meta-discussion--discussion about an  article, say, if we were to use the
MediaWiki example. I would want "comments", were they implemented for a page
(MediaWiki doesn't do this, presumably on the assumption that non-meta
comments belong as edits in the article) to refer to the =subject= of the
article.

So, if I write a page on klezmer, and you make some edits with which I
disagree, the "talk" page is a good place to hash out administrativia, but
if you and I have different views on klezmer, the "comments" section would
be a good place for the two of us to discuss (along with anyone else who
joined in).

Does this make any sense?
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