https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46440

--- Comment #16 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
So, to my mind there are two options here, and I can't quite understand which
is being discussed (it appears both):

* Is this about surfacing to the editors in some nice way post-VisualEditor
roll-out the existing comments for editors - I.e. "<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE
OBAMA'S NAME -->" at the top of the Barack Obama article on enwiki? If so,
great, and this should probably be moved to the VisualEditor product space.
This is definitely needed for VE, but I worry that the scope for functionality
is not huge, and it might be limiting.

* Is this about building an additional persistent/semi-persistent
un-threaded/semi-threaded discussion space on top of pages/revisions(?) like
Co-ment and Google Docs? If so, that sounds fun, and something that we're also
looking at building for VisualEditor (as part of the real-time collaboration
system, potentially), but I wouldn't want us to get in the way of someone
building a first pass for GSoC. Doing this for both VE and wikitext at the same
would be a really hard UI challenge (they're very different interface
concepts), so perhaps limiting it to just one of them for now? Also, there
needs to be a really serious discussion about how this would work from a
product perspective (threading? how much? how signed? using LQT? why not? where
stored? attached to revisions? To pages? to sections of said revision/page?
how? etc.) lest it become mammoth. OTOH, this would be very cool as well.

Apologies for the confusion on my part. :-)

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