[Gnumed-devel] wiki convention to de-clutter discussion (proposal)

[Jim Busser]

just an idea among current or potential wiki users:

There are times that to limit a wiki page content to just the current 
plan, in order to keep it clear, leaves out the rationale by which we 
got to the plan, or leaves out the alternatives that were considered. 
Yet to retain the extra detail on the same page would clutter and might 
confuse.

I thought therefore to take an idea from wikipedia which has been 
rewritten to maintain discussion about a page's content on a separate 
page.

While Twiki has no tidy built-in way to do this, any content that is 
worth keeping* (see footnote) COULD be moved onto a pseudo-"child" 
page, created by taking the existing wiki page/topic name (e.g. 
WikiWord)  and appending _disc as in WikiWord_disc. Within the original 
page, beneath its heading, we could routinely insert the link 
_[[WikiWord_disc Discussion]]_ in italicized, non-heading text

As to some pages Ian had started (linked from DevelopmentPlanner) 
seeking discussion, I might think that after the discussion comes 
(there is yet no resolution) and after a plan has been resolved, these 
pages could be reduced to the "distilled" plan, and any discussion 
details worth keeping could be moved to a child page in the manner 
described above.

* content like known or potential weaknesses; things to remember; 
tradeoffs; alternate options; contingencies; dissenting views