by chrisjlocke » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:26 pm
Requests would just as likely get lost in a wiki as they do in a forum. It would also be 'confusing' having two completely different systems. Most people are happy using a forum, but wikis aren't as popular yet (but growing).
Also, how do wikis cope with two people editing the same page at the same time? If all requests were on one page, wouldn't it get hit a lot? If requests were on a seperate page, how would they be 'indexed' ? Wikis are designed mainly for info lookups - people find pages by looking in an index. If each request was on its own page, how is that different from a forum, where each request now is in its own thread?
They're also prone to 'vandalism' where people can delete all the text. It can be an admin nightmare keep putting it back.
I wouldn't be hard to knock up a PHP script which read through a particular forum and built up an up-to-date list. The subject heading of forum posts could contain 'tags' denoting the level of the suggestion - [1], [2], [3] for what stage in development, [Fixed] for completed ones, etc. This page could then fit in with the rest of the site design...