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Comments improvements on MediaWiki

I’m using wikis all the time and I am a fun of MediaWiki engine but there is one feature that I consider having a bad implementation. It’s about the page comments – or “discussions”. I think these are quite important that MediaWiki should switch to something similar to the way Atlassian Confluence is dealing with the page comments.In fact, I think there are very few things where Confluence is better:

• Comments
• Default theme (skin)
• Foldered structure or “spaces” – where you can assign pages to spaces. MediaWiki has something like this: namespaces – but they are not easy to manage and the URLs are looking quite bad.

Comments should be:

• displayed at the end of each page – not in a different tab
• assigned to a wiki user and not combined all in a wiki like page.
• (optional) rateable

I will post a picture so you could understand better the difference between comments these two implementations:

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