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Community and *.tiki.org site organization


Comments: metadata or forums?

posts: 179 France


I have noticed there are many useful writings that are difficult to find in tikiwiki.org, because they are in the comments.

I think that, ideally, comments should be Metadata, i.e. thoughts about the way the related page should be written.

They should not be Data, if you see what I mean. In Wikipedia comments are Metadata in that sense. They remain focused on modifications to bring to the main page. I observe that in tikiwiki.org comments often become forums, that is an interesting discussion with information in itself.

But they are not easy to find. You have to use Search to find them. You cannot navigate to them. It is as if in wikipedia there were rich encyclopedia articles hidden in the comments.

Maybe that is a "vice" that should be eradicated as soon as possible in tiki development. I don't have a complete solutions for the moment:

- Extend the Discuss into forums feature, make it possible to click and make a comment page a forum, when it has become a forum.

- Make Discuss into forums a default setting, and create a new category that would be apart from real forums, presented like another feature, a hybrid between forums and preparation of wiki pages, accessibles from commented pages, but also from forums-like navigation.

Or... in the other direction, invent ways si that comments CANNOT become a discussion... I don't know...


posts: 2881 United Kingdom

Hiya

"Discuss" is already a wiki feature, enable it on your Admin->Wiki and setup a wiki discussion forum, then each page in the wiki gets a topic in the forum.

You can setup your own settings on your own personal profile, The profiles used in the installation script and really just sql inserts setting up the Admin section to default profiles. TikiProfiles should enlighten you more in that area, but basically I think everything here is already possible.

Migration could be a big problem tho, and tw.o is not well organised anyway, hence the original creation of doc.tw.o


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