Thread Subject: Re: default tab on the wiki

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From: Jim Tobias
Date: Tue, Oct 17 2006 12:30 PM

again, it's not the technology that does this. it's the fact that it's
labeled a discussion page and seeded with a discussion. the article tab
looks like an article for the same reason.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bailey Bruce [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:53 AM
> To: TEITAC Communications Task Force
> Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] default tab on the wiki
>
> > At least on a discussion page the text looks less authoritative --
> > it's clearly a bunch of opinions.
>
> 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.
>
>

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