On 30 April 2014 08:52, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > > We do have such a feature in MediaWiki, though: mediawiki.feedback.js. It's > just a JavaScrip popup which saves the comment to a page on the wiki. > >> many of >> which would not otherwise comment at all. And for some tools (such as >> UploadWizard) there is no obvious place to leave comments, and opening >> Bugzilla is a new-tab + multi-step process away. > > UploadWizard (like VisualEditor) uses what above. Maybe it needs an option > to be offered more prominently under some conditions? > This is probably the most viable option here, almost no technical effort and > more value in output.
It's certainly simpler to implement, but anything that involves on-wiki recording has two main problems: * friction in saving the entry (eg edit conflicts, login required, user IP blocked) * privacy problems (comments are public and effectively attributed) This isn't much of an issue for things like "please give us feedback on the new fancy upload tool" - where everyone can be expected to have a functioning account and aware of how the wiki works, but if you're going to be gathering feedback on reader-focused things it breaks down. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Multimedia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
