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 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. 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 <risker.wp@gmail.com>:

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 <kharlan@wikimedia.org> 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 <schenonef@gmail.com> 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!

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