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Talk pages should not themselves be wiki pages. This is the result of all that MVP stuff people go on about. Wikipedia had wikis, they didn't have discussion bo
by quadrangle 11y ago
Talk pages should not themselves be wiki pages. This is the result of all that MVP stuff people go on about. Wikipedia had wikis, they didn't have discussion boards. They needed discussion boards. MVP was to use another wiki page for discussions, and that evolved into the stupidness we see today.
Talk and discussion are completely different process than collaborative editing, and they demand different tools.
I also agree about the markup (it's markUP. "Markdown" is a specific type of markup language which, despite its flaws, probably is the easiest and now most common one)
- jessriedel 11y agoMVP?
- bgilroy26 11y agoMaybe MVP is being used as a calling card for the concept of iterating on a prototype in general? Lean startup methodology was an inheritor of common wisdom such as "worse is better" and "best is the enemy of the good" but they're all in the same family tree.
- nolok 11y agoMinimum viable product. In this case, "hey we need a way for people to talk to each other", "sure, we should make a discussion tool, but to get it right now we could use a wiki page that users edit one after another to add their answers". The fact that it started as such is not an issue per se, but after so many years wikipedia should have replaced it with something better and easier.