On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:15:48PM -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
I thought that perhaps, for a trial period, we could add a prominently-placed button in articles for not-logged-in readers with the title of "Report an Error or Suggest Information to Add".
Since so many people don't realise that Wikipedia is for anybody to edit, this could take them to a new page that explained in bold letters the concept of Wikipedia and that they could edit the article themselves, but still have an error-report field in case they still didn't get it.
While this would obviously be open to abuse, it might also provide useful feedback from people who otherwise wouldn't contribute anything, and would definitely serve to let these people know that the power is in their hands, what with the boldly-placed notice that THEY can fix it themselves and all.
I'm sure there would be way too much feedback to ever completely sift through, but I still think it might be useful.
Sounds like a useful idea. No need for big codebase changes either, the "add feedback" form could just be an "add new section" edit form for the article's talk page.