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[Peri Hankey]

John Reimer wrote:
> jcc7 wrote:
> 
>> It's supposed to be a beneficial feature of the wiki. The links can be 
>> renamed,
>> though it takes some more effort.
>>
>> Is this better now?
>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?FrontPage
>>
>> jcc7
> 
> 
> 
> Much better! thank you, Justin!
> 
> -JJR

There was an earlier reference to the mediawiki software that is used in 
  http://www.wikipedia.org. This avoids camelCase notation, and it has a 
really significant advantage - each page has four tabs:

* the actual content
* discussion about the content
* a source/edit tab
* a history tab.

In a wiki that does not have per-page discussion features, the 
discussion tends to happen on the page, which will then look out of date 
unless someone cleans it all up, and in that case you lose the 
discussion, or run into problems of wikiquette - one person's outdated 
discussion may be another person's valuable contribution.

As it happens, wikipedia was having problems just now :( But it also 
makes effective use of css.

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Peri Hankey                               mpah at thegreen.co.uk
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