I don't think comments on live articles would be useful (as mentioned above) but there are many cases which it can be a game changer. I can think of a couple:
- Collaborative drafting: When you want to draft policy, a proposal, a new article, etc. with one or more fellow Wikimedians - Using as a replacement for google docs in many private wikis (as both for Wikimedia and third party corporate installations). We already have collab-pad <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Real-time_collaboration> which allows users to turn VE into an etherpad. I would love to see that get off the ground. - Reviewing a nomination for good or featured article: For example, take a look at a recent FAC <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Alpine_ibex/archive1&redirect=no>. The reviewer highlights a sentence in the discussion page and makes a comment about it and that's quite...labor intensive. Having a way to allow commenting which would be only visible to a small group of users would be quite nice. It shouldn't be too hard to implement but not super trivial either. MediaWiki is open source and extendable (via extensions) and I would appreciate any work on it! Am Fr., 8. Dez. 2023 um 21:09 Uhr schrieb Risker <[email protected]>: > I don't have a particular opinion on this, except that inline comments > that are publicly visible must be able to be moderated by the community, > and that smaller communities in particular should be able to opt out of > this extension. They sound like a great idea, but we're much more likely > to get comments like "this isn't true" or "this [highly unreliable website] > disagrees", and that just creates problems for readers. We can assume good > faith until the cows come home, but we should also be realistic and realize > that those comments are going to make our articles look more like Twitter > and Facebook; that is, they'll be opportunities for disinformation. > > Risker/Anne > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 at 05:43, Kosta Harlan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is an extension >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InlineComments >> >> There's some past discussion of this type of thing here: >> >> >> - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149667 >> - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312760 >> >> >> Kosta >> >> On 8. Dec 2023 at 10:12:08, Felipe Schenone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi! I'm thinking on writing a gadget to add inline comments to articles, >>> similar to how Google Docs comments work. >>> >>> However, I'm sure I recently read somewhere about someone developing an >>> extension or something with the same goal, but now I can't find it >>> anywhere. Anyone knows? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ -- Amir (he/him)
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