Since it's unlikely the foundation mailing list will agree to enable
such a comment section on every Wikipedia article (although enabling
it is quite easy: just choose a "comment" extension from
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and
enable it on Wikipedia), maybe we can talk about implementing it on a
separate website.
For example, create a website named
WikiSocial.com. This will be a Web
2.0 version of Wikipedia, which lets you browse Wikipedia's content
but also provides Web 2.0 social features such as the comment section,
social sharing buttons (e.g. "Tweet this article").
Any interest? :-)
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All,
I just filed a feature request which I think is of strategic interest
to Wikipedia:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33889
Bug 33889 - Request to add a comment section under every Wikipedia article
By providing a comment section under every Wikipedia article, we can enable
people interested in that topic to talk with each other, make friends and
exchange external resources pertaining to that topic (e.g. books, products,
jobs, external references, etc.).
Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia; it is also a very valuable "topic
navigation and positioning service" that navigates you to any conceivable topic
in your mind, and once you're at that topic's Wikipedia article, the
article's
URL becomes a unique address that "positions" that topic. With this position,
we can do many useful things (such as the ones mentioned in the previous
paragraph), just like we can do many useful things with a geographic
information system (GIS) such as Google Earth.
There are many MediaWiki extensions that can add a comment section to every
Wikipedia article. Just go to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and search for
"comment" or "discussion".
Best Regards,
Ziyuan Yao