On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
A comment section under every Wikipedia article seems to be a very bad
idea. You read a Wikipedia article to learn about the subject at hand, you
can read comments on the talk page. Reading the talk page only makes sense
when you are interested in learning more about what people have to say
about the article or the subject. Typically I am not and I am sure that
most of our readers could not care less.
Having comments in your face at the bottom to me is not only something I
would resent, it would also add more clutter that I have to download every
time I read an article. Given that more and more people read Wikipedia on a
mobile, it is added real cost with debatable benefit.
I see this idea is unpopular among the maling list, but I still want
to point out that the "download" part is not true. Comments can be
dynamically downloaded (e.g. AJAX) on a on-demand basis (only when you
click "Show comments" would comments be downloaded and shown to you).
Interesting idea, sure. Strategic hell no.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 22 January 2012 22:43, 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
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