On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Charles Matthews<[email protected]> wrote: >> But I imagine this kind of proposal is fairly common: >> >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13573 >> > The introduction of Talk pages was, it should not be forgotten, one of > the most brilliant innovations of the early days of Wikipedia. The idea > that the Talk page is specifically for discussions aimed at improving > the article in its current state is actually a pillar of how we work. > Feedback of the "like it/hate it" kind (which is what voting would be) > cuts across all that: I think that is obvious based on experience of how > people (readers - most of the world doesn't edit) react to articles. A > single annoying aspect is likely to get negative votes, and whether > voting is commented or not, there are going to be problems. > > So before some strategy genius decides that whole namespace is for > something other than its traditional role, I think there should be a > pause for reflection. Perhaps there could be a way of encouraging > comments which were general (not specific to an existing thread or > starting a new topic), and simply filed in a dedicated "general comment" > archive, running in parallel with the traditional slug-it-out > editing-related comments.
+1 That would be handy. Many talk page comments today would better fit into that sort of 'general comment' archive -- having a place to organize each would help improve relations with casual commenters as well (who often get ignored, or brushed aside with a comment that it's been mentioned previously... which isn't such a great reason to proscribe new comments). Sj _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
