Thread Subject: Re: default tab on the wiki

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From: Jessica M. Brodey
Date: Tue, Oct 17 2006 8:10 AM

Do you have any examples of this put to practice? Perhaps a wikipedia
discussion page? Does the search facility return hits on discussion
pages? From what I can tell, the media Wiki Talk: pages get their
formatting because of the understanding among users. The mechanics of
Editing on the Talk: pages is exactly the same as the main article
pages. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong here!) If Jared just
make the Discussion tab the default tab, nothing has changed but one
more-or-less arbitrary text label! It doesn't solve the challenge of
promoting contributions.

I agree with Jessica that putting comments in the discussion tab hides
them, which is why you want the discuss tab to be the default. I do not
understand the problem with promoting a proactive of having less formal
areas of the main pages.

> Can we perhaps discuss one of the documents to see what it would look
like? Right now, I'm having trouble seeing how this would work out - I'm
concerned that the content will get lost in the discussion, making it
extremely inaccessible to first-time users visiting the web page just
looking for content.

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