[Koha] RFCs - could we make better use of MediaWiki?

[MJ Ray]

Magnus Enger <magnus at enger.priv.no> wrote:
> I don't think the layout of the RFCs is clear enough as it is, all of
> these pages seem (at first glance) to be doing some of the same
> things:
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:RFCs
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:RFCs:for_3.2
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Category:3.2

I agree with this and posted something similar myself about
Category:Serials and Category:RFCs compared to the proposed
Category:Serials_RFCs.

> And how do you find out which RFCs have sponsors, which are under
> active development etc?

Search bugzilla enh tickets.  But, as noted, bugzilla needs some
tidying.

> *** Editing and "cataloguing" RFCs
> 
> For another project I have used the "Semantic Mediawiki"
> (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/) family of extensions to MediaWiki,
> and I think it/they might help with making our RFCs easier to interact
> with.

I'm reluctant to see our wiki become even more stuck in mediawikisms.
I remain hopeful that dissatisfaction with mediawiki and a return to
something which uses an easier wiki markup will happen one day.

So, is this possible another way?

[...]
> * Provide a "standard" comment form as an alternative to the "Talk"
> page (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticleComments)

That reminds me: if I'm watching an RFC page, will I be told about
activity on the related Talk page?  If not, wouldn't it be better
if people just edited the RFC and we switched off Talk pages?

Hope that helps,
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