Topic on Extension talk:StructuredDiscussions

AslanFrench (talkcontribs)

I'm new to the mediawiki world, and I'm currently researching it in order to decide whether or not I want to use it. I think this extensions is very much needed, as I find talk pages extremely confusing in their presentation etc. I'm speaking as someone who works as a UX Designer and Developer, I'm technically inclined, and I actually know conceptually how talk pages work now, but even so it's very out of step with the UI norms the rest of the web have adopted and a more modern update like this seems necessary.

Also as much as this extension is needed, there is still a lot more features it could use. I think allowing for deeper threading is one thing. Or are these discussions meant to be shallow (in the sense of tree hierarchy depth, not content)?

It might be useful to have shallow comments discussion sections (like you would have on stack exchange or disqus) which have limited nested threads, and then have a deeper "forum" like format which allowed for deeper threading and possibly greater multimedia controls. Just a thought.

Tacsipacsi (talkcontribs)

I’m not very familiar with UX terms. What do you mean by deep discussions? Topics within topics? I don’t see where would it be useful to have more than the two current levels (page and topic). Replies to specific replies (i.e. what is currently available on Stack Exchange in two-level form: answers and comments on answers)? As far as I know, Structured Discussions supports this kind of deepness infinitely (or at least more than just one or two levels).

AslanFrench (talkcontribs)

By deep I mean the number of levels deep a thread can go. It can only go 3. Which I think is good for a comment section but maybe not for a more detailed conversation/debate on a topic. Perhaps having two forms of feedback would be good? One for commentary and then another for deeper topic discussion?

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