+1 to Hypothesis and similar tools kind of already doing what you're
thinking of.  I would use the energy to contribute to it:
https://github.com/hypothesis/client, and it's possible that you might find
ways to optimize it for wikis via a gadget.

They've probably solved the "parent paragraph updating" problem you
mentioned here.  So at the very least you can find inspiration there.  But
I imagine the issue of storage and all that is tricky.  There was a W3C
working group that the Hypothesis people were part of, I remember we
half-heartedly wanted to join but never did.

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 7:41 PM Gergő Tisza <gti...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you just want to annotate a web page without assistance from that page,
> and let you share then annotations, that's not a Wikimedia-specific problem
> and there are generic tools for it. The popular one is Hypothesis
> <https://web.hypothes.is/about/>, I think.  There even was an attempt to
> build something Wikimedia-specific on top of it (see the task Kosta
> linked), but it can be used directly as well.
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