Bullet Collector Refactoring

This is one recipe for refactoring wiki pages from ThreadMode to DocumentMode.

Status: Currently just a suggestion, a small experiment, and an invitation to partake in the experiment.

Requirements: One "collector". One set of bullet points within a page. Some other participants. Enough good will to follow this recipe within that one set of bullet points.

Recipe:


Example (on the subject of food)

An initial statement might look like this:

Shall we try the BulletCollectorRefactoring? -- CollectorPerson

After some Participants have added comments,

Shall we try the BulletCollectorRefactoring? -- CollectorPerson

In this case, HelpfulPerson is sort of replying to VeggiePerson. The recipe says this is not a good idea. Whether that's enough to cause CollectorPerson to abandon the refactoring will depend on whether he thinks he can recover neatly. A more compliant contribution would be the suggestion to add the commonly used ingredients as a new level two item.

After a round of Collector edits,

Shall we try the BulletCollectorRefactoring? -- CollectorPerson

With the remark about being "highly dangerous", it seems the Collector is showing a little bias! The next round of Participants' comments are sure to call him on this, though.

Miraculously, each participant comes along and updates his comment immediately in this example.

Shall we try the BulletCollectorRefactoring? -- CollectorPerson

Voila, something vaguely resembling DocumentMode.


Discussion

I was hoping to find a simpler form of expressing this, but hopefully it is adequate to start. It's a suggestion, I'll try it out on a small piece of PissedOffAndExtremelyAngry and see what happens. I doubt it will work as well as it does for my contrived example. -- MatthewAstley


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