[WikiEN-l] Googley comments

[David Gerard]

2009/9/2  <WJhonson at aol.com>:

> To make this thread on-topic, I wonder if there would be any  advantage is
> allowing comments, separate from Talk Page comments, on our  articles?
> I notice that many casual readers will leave "comments" which you  can
> generally spot as they are not-tagged-with-a-sig and generally left at the  top
> of the Talk page without regard for headers and so on.
> I just wonder if a more free-form "comment" section would encourage  more
> casual readers to become casual writers.


Yes. Wikinews does this - they have a "collaboration" page for editors
working on the article, but a "comment" page specifically for readers
to spout forth. Would be good.


- d.