Add discussions to the wiki pages

[callmetango]

Describe the idea

We should add discussions to the wiki pages. There should be a new category "Wiki Pages" in the X11Libre · Discussions · GitHub. In this there should exist exactly one discussion thread per wiki page. The name of the discussion thread should be 'Wiki-Page "<name of the wiki page>"'.

The discussion thread of a wiki page should be mentioned in the first paragraph describing the scope of the wiki page with a link to the respective thread. In the first post of the discussion thread there should be a backlink to the wiki page as well.

In addition to the above mentioned threads per wiki page there should be an introductionary pinned post desrcibing the purpose of the wiki pages discussions category in the same manner as e.g. Welcome to the New Ideas! · X11Libre · Discussion #227.

It should be done because

Unfortunately, the Github wiki does not support discussions on the page content like e.g. the MediaWiki talk pages.

In the updated README, we have actively encouraged potential contributors to update the wiki pages. Furthermore, there will also be external links to these wiki pages in the future.

It can be assumed that some contributors are not that involved in XLibre to make changes to the wiki pages on their own initiative. Furthermore, there may be a need to discuss the content of the wiki pages and the changes made to them in advance or afterwards. These cases are to be covered by this idea.

What are the alternatives?

No response

Additional context

As there is unfortunately no simple automatic mechanism for creating discussion threads for wiki pages on Github, the discussion threads must be created manually and renamed or closed if necessary. Overall, this effort should be less than the benefits gained by the discussions for the wiki pages.

Extra fields

• I have checked the existing New Ideas, RFCs Of The Core Team, Ideas Soon To Be Addressed and Someday Ideas
• I have read the Contributing Guidelines
• I'd like to work on this idea

[callmetango]

@artist4xlibre @b-aaz @mikedld @stefan11111 @steven-vd CC

@metux @probonopd What do you think?

[probonopd]

Sounds like a good idea to me, as long as someone is willing to regularly check those threads and make changes to the wiki pages if needed.

[b-aaz]

+

[callmetango]

Sure, the threads will be monitored and possible contributions encouraged and conlicts resolved. The editing itself is then up to the editors because... the wiki stays a wiki. 😉

[metux]

ACK.

[callmetango]

I will go for it in Add discussions to the wiki pages · Issue #263 · X11Libre/misc.

[callmetango]

This idea was realized by resolving Add discussions to the wiki pages · Issue #263 · X11Libre/misc.