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.

As a casual reader on OPB (other people's blogs) I get annoyed if my comment gets wiped or never appears.

I think I like "Comment on this page" at the bottom, but I'm hesitant to endorse that creating a section on the discussion (Talk) page. I have a reason for my hesitation. Sometimes readers comments on say "Patty Hearst" might be something like "Oh I remember when this occurred, I was in the seventh grade and had to do a report on her..." Now something like that is an interesting way for casual readers to spout off, but on a patrolled-article, comments of that sort get routinely purged as they don't really help us to improve the article. As a casual reader on OPB (other people's blogs) I get annoyed if my comment gets wiped or never appears. I wouldn't be adverse to moderated comments so we don't get "lick my ass!" and things like that. At any rate, anyone want to bring this to the general wiki community somewhere and gauge the reaction? Will -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:58 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes, there's no good reason we should subject casual commenters to the horrors of wikitext. If they can even figure out that in order to comment they have to click a tiny little link marked "Discussion" (at the top of the page, not the bottom where every other site does it), then another tiny little link marked "Edit this page" or "New section". Simple suggestion: A big green button at the bottom of every page marked "Comment on this page" which creates a new section on the discussion page. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Good idea, but we would get dozens of "OMG I LUV THIS PERSUN!!!!!11!!!". Emily

I notice the button to submit a comment is labelled "Make a public comment"; confusing!

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: In the Google search settings page, I followed a "learn more" link about SearchWiki, which took me here: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=115764 Looks like any comments/promotions/rankings you make are stored for your own use -- the documentation on the help page seems to suggest that this information is private (in the sense that it's only viewed by you on your own searches, if not necessarily as a matter of policy), but I notice the button to submit a comment is labelled "Make a public comment"; confusing! -Luna _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l