First impression I like :) I gather if a comment is unwelcome it can be removed by editing the talk page history, if the talk page is protected does that prevent the addition of comments or favourites?
On 12 August 2011 17:50, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote: > The foundation mailing list recently discussed "Like"-buttons for > articles, to improve community building and attract new editors. > > I thought about improving Commons for the less-techie community. So I > looked at Flickr, and the "community" part on image pages consists > mainly of comments and favourites counter. > > Commons can have comments (say that quickly three times in a row!) on > file talk pages, but I've rarely seen "oh, I like this" as a comment > there. Nothing wrong with that, Commons has a more "serious" aspect to > it... > > But what if, in addition to the usual Wikimedian ways, there were easy > "favs" and "comment" functions in Commons? Right under the image > description? Have a look (you need to be logged in for the full > flavour): > > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanger_Institute_and_Hinxton_Hall,_Cambridge,_UK.jpg?withJS=MediaWiki:FileComments.js > > Beneath "Licensing", there is now "Comments and favourites", with a > few test comments of mine. I've also added this as a "favourite" of > mine, being my own image and all ;-) > > If you are logged in, you can add one-line comments (with wiki > syntax), and set/remove the file as a personal favourite. These > actions are stored and logged in two ways: On the talk page on the > file, wrapped in templates, and on your user subpages: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/My_file_comments > and > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/My_favourite_files > respectively. > > For the technically inclined, script is here: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:FileComments.js > > There could be plenty to do in terms of development: Editing/removing > comments (comment author and admins only?), fancy comment input > dialog, a "Log in or Sign up to comment" link for anons, etc. > > > So: Comments? ;-) > > M. > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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