Version 223 of Ask and it shall be given Discussion

From GPS re: the message board

GPS: A message board might be useful as a companion to the Tcl'ers Wiki and the Tcl'ers Chat. The *golden nuggets* of information could be preserved on the wiki, in a hopefully easier format to navigate. Tracking many conversations is just too painful without a more structured display. As an alternative we could have a standard response of "use news://comp.lang.tcl instead," and pull in the good posts from there (as CL and others already do).

From LV re: prefix in the titles and multiple questions per page

LV I prefer NOT to have prefixs in the titles - makes the titles far too long and wordy. I also prefer multiple questions on a wiki page rather than one question per page. However, I do also prefer that the questions be related to a common topic. Finally, I highly prefer seeing the questions moved to relevant existing pages, when possible - for instance, if the question is about foreach, then that's where the question and answer should go; not, in my opinion, to some new page. New pages should be reserved for new topics .

From RS re: putting questions at the bottom of a page

RS The recent rush in low-info page creation disappointed me. We had a tradition for years that, for instance, people having a question about grid just put it at bottom of that page, and some or more helpful souls answered it right there. Seems better to me than adding a hierarchy of not-always-obvious concepts on top of precise questions.

From LES re: the add comment feature

LES: I don't understand the question. The absolute majority of wikit's pages are but a long series of comments. Does this proposal mean comments on the comments??! Or a "read-only" section segregated from an editable section?!! Or what?

MAK - Date is not nearly as important as figuring out what the majority of wiki users want and thus pissing off the fewest people.

CMcC Yeah, the vote finishes when it finishes. It should be fairly obvious to any reasonable observer when that occurs.

MAK No, this is not the same thing at all. That is used as a note of what has been changed on the page, like with a CVS checkin comment, not to add notes to the page its self.

And finally: an explosive picture and a little wisdom

One should not rush ... to solutions before understanding the problem