On 30 April 2014 08:52, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
We do have such a feature in MediaWiki, though: mediawiki.feedback.js. It's just a JavaScrip popup which saves the comment to a page on the wiki.
many of which would not otherwise comment at all. And for some tools (such as UploadWizard) there is no obvious place to leave comments, and opening Bugzilla is a new-tab + multi-step process away.
UploadWizard (like VisualEditor) uses what above. Maybe it needs an option to be offered more prominently under some conditions? This is probably the most viable option here, almost no technical effort and more value in output.
It's certainly simpler to implement, but anything that involves on-wiki recording has two main problems:
* friction in saving the entry (eg edit conflicts, login required, user IP blocked) * privacy problems (comments are public and effectively attributed)
This isn't much of an issue for things like "please give us feedback on the new fancy upload tool" - where everyone can be expected to have a functioning account and aware of how the wiki works, but if you're going to be gathering feedback on reader-focused things it breaks down.