Thread:Project:Support desk/An easier way to weigh in on questions

The goal of my Media Wiki site is to enable better gathering, discussing and deciding over shared directions and goals.

To facilitate participation I imagine input looking like;


 * A safe, simple and easy way to populate/edit tables and data.
 * A shared list of prioritized questions and directions that we want to address.
 * A way to weigh in on any of these questions any time by adding their own response or by voting someone else’s input up or down.
 * A way for a moderator to select up to 5 of these responses for a real time online discussion where viewers could then reflect their understanding by asking new questions or by rating someone else s response.

For folks skilled at computers and editing Wiki’s, the built in editing, discussion and talk tools are good enough to build and maintain Wikipedia. I think that for your average mom or pop to get involved, they would need an easier way to participate.

Is it possible to do this using MediaWiki? The content under manual forms https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Forms makes it sound like this sort of thing is doable. Are there examples of other sites using these editing ideas?

I appreciate your taking the time to consider this long winded question and I hope there is a solution out there. Thanks, Jack Sanders, rmt