Hmm. The styling of the comments linked from the numbers on the left at http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page
is much better than the numbers on the right at https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/5e7ed624986d
which are compressed way too thin, to be viable for significant discussions (eg this long and friendly discussion/collaboration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s_filmography


I'd made a semi-related brainstorm/slideshow, back in October, after being inspired by the "comment" system in Googledocs, and all the whitespace at the side of iteration#2 of the Typography Refresh.
https://imgur.com/a/Kn3HZ (description above, and source-links below, each of the images)

I'm intrigued by the possibility of attaching comment-threads to specific locations of a content-page.  Eg. having a thread autogenerated, when someone adds a {{clarification needed}} inline template to an article, prompting them for a "reason=" as the first comment in the thread.
I have no idea if/how that'd work at a technical level.  (I did run the idea by one programmer a few months ago, who lamented that it was 'inconceivable' with the current software, to which I gave the obvious riposte.)

Thanks for the pointer. :)


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Interesting use of comments related to paragraphs in wiki pages -- functional in MediaWiki and deployed in a top site. I didn't know about this, it looks very interesting.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Markus Glaser <markus.glaser@wikimedia.de>
Date: Friday, June 20, 2014
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi Micru,

Basically the comments are associated to each paragraph, and a little
number appears next to it. When clicking it, it displays the comments.
There's already a similar implementation for MediaWiki. It's basically a modification of Extension:Comments and it allows to associate comments with sections. You can see it live at WebPlatform.org [1].

Best,
Markus

[1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page


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