On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 03/21/2013 05:53 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
Inline commenting is an extremely powerful tool for sophisticated editing. Lawyers are heavy users - we'd be happy to have our brains picked if you'd like to discuss this idea more. :)
Indeed, as you may know, stet was used to develop GPLv3.
Yes, and we used co-ment (a successor tool) to develop MPLv2- see, for example: https://mpl.co-ment.com/text/NMccndsidpP/view/
I will sorely miss the functionality when we next roll out a major policy document here. It isn't always appropriate, but for small refinements to documents (which is a very common use case) it is a much better way to discuss changes than talk pages. [Relatedly, I wouldn't think of it as a "feedback tool", but rather as a discussion and editing tool.]
Luis