ToME WikiLet's learn from the wikipedia by having an automatic discussion page for each page. This allows page maintainers to communicate efficiently in real time without loading the page itself with comments.
NeilStevens: I was hoping others would comment, but here's my view: Wikipedia uses those because they deliberately want to suck all personality and community from the main pages. I'd rather not have the ToME wiki full of cold pages with a neutral point of view.
ReenenLaurie: What is an automatic discussion page? And how does it work?
ElanorGamgee: Here's an example - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Lord_of_the_Rings.
FuriousOne: I see what Neil is saying; though it could get pretty difficult to justify no discussion pages when we have a bunch of topics with a teensy bit of information (e.g. 'Special Levels'), and a bunch of people discussing ... what? If something is wrong in the entry, anyone can just correct it. What else could be discussed? Special levels are a fact of ToME, no amount of discussion will change the information that's available. It could be used for something like 'special level strategy discussion' but then eventually such a page would annoy the heck out of those visitors who are here for the information, not the discussion - imagine loading a 23K document just to get at 1K of information. Maybe instead of discussion pages something like the slashdot system could be implemented, a special "User Comments" area with (read more...) at a certain threshold.
NeilStevens: Look, I'm not saying discussion pages are bad. I'm just opposed to the wikipedia way of doing things, where ALL discussion on the main pages is forbidden. That's why they have automatic discussion pages, you know. We won't need separate discussion pages much, so we can create them as needed (usually under Wiki Discussion or Wiki Suggestions).
MayLith: IMHO, I'd rather see a Chatter or Discussion section at the bottom of the page itself -- especially if the page has a TOC. If the discussion gets really long, it can always be broken out into a separate page. Or, if the page itself is super long (such as LD's advanced strategy guide), having a separate discussion page is easier, just because it takes so darned long for the main page to load.
SoulWynd: Well, I already made the code for it. I don't know if it works, but it posted around somewhere. It uses a macro to create a small form and then an action to post the message on the botton of the page. Really easy and fast to use. If it works at all... *shrugs* I even forgot were I posted it.
MayLith: If you remember where you put it, a link would be great. Thanks for your hard work!
SoulWynd: Search helps -> Wiki Suggestions/Forum Emulation