[sldev] [POLICY] New mailing list keywords posted

[John Hurliman]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Please direct follow-ups to this page:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:SLDev
>
> Rob
>   

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to use a wiki for conversation? In 
my e-mail client I have a threaded discussion view, new chat is pushed 
in to my inbox in realtime, I can apply filters to move things to my 
trash or highlight threads and messages, and manually tag threads and 
messages. I don't know how to do any of this with a wiki. To make 
matters worse, whenever I read a wiki it is directed at a general 
audience of "the reader", so when two people on the same page are 
disagreeing they never address each other directly and instead try to 
persuade the general reader that the other person doesn't know what they 
are talking about. On talk pages some people indent when replying and 
some people use line breaks, some people sign their comments and some 
don't (or forget). People might post something at the top of the page, 
the bottom, start a new section in the middle, and there is nothing 
tying everything together to give you a feel of the timeline. Without 
reading through every diff in the history it is hard to see who said 
what, and peoples comments often get changed or deleted and lost unless 
you are in the habit of reading through every changelog for every wiki 
page you read.

John Hurliman