I like having the "Make a Comment" button at
the bottom of each
article, as this would mimic what readers are used to seeing at
other sites.
Maybe the "Make a Comment" button can link to a page that has check
boxes that have both positive (Fun to read, easy to understand,
accurate) and negative (Boring, hard to understand, inaccurate) words
beside them, then have a text box at the bottom saying "Any other
comments?". We would get a lot of kids who would, of course, do the
whole "dirty pedo" thing in the text box, check off all the words,
etc. At least then, it doesn't end up in the article.
But then, who would read the comments?
Emily
On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:04 PM, WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
No that was someone's idea, but not mine.
I like having the "Make a Comment" button at the bottom of each
article, as this would mimic what readers are used to seeing at other
sites.
I don't that this would create a seperate section on the Talk page
however, as I think this would clutter the Talk page with a lot of
casual comments.
When you read the comments on say a YouTube video, you get a lot of
one-liners and people talking back and forth and so on.
I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to allow
casual readers to make comments.
It seems like just that possibly more-friendly approach might bring
people into the project as editors as well.
I'm not sure it would, it's a trial balloon.
Will
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean(a)me.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 11:20 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
I suppose there would need to be a guideline
started to decide what
sorts of things are OK for comments.
I thought we were talking about how to make the talk page more
accessible...
Emily
On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:19 PM, WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:21:35 AM Pacific
Daylight Time,
bluecaliocean(a)me.com writes:
Yeah, but see, the thing is, you don't
"own" the blog. The person
writing it does (well, technically, the blog hosting service does).
They have the right to not have a comment show up. We could use the
same argument on Wikipedia.>>
---------------
What? That Wikipedia puts a "comment on this article" and someone
says "I
love this person" and "we" or at least someone decides that fan mail
is not
something we want ?
I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what
sorts
of things are OK for comments.
Will
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