On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Does anyone actually use this in ways relevant to WP?
I rather like the first ("most helpful") sidewiki comment from the main page:
"Sidewiki provides what Wikipedia has long needed. A place for people to discuss an article or its topic without discussing the editing of it. This gives people an outlet without cluttering discussion pages with what amount to forum posts."
I think we should have done this a long time ago ourselves, in the same way that Wikinews does it with a third tab after the article and the talk page for venting and non-editing-related discussion.
But I haven't seen anything really compelling about sidewiki in particular yet. It seems like a crippled alternative to the "blog comments" Firefox plugin Google used to have but then disabled.
-Sage