On 19 April 2013 03:28, Mathieu Stumpf psychoslave@culture-libre.org wrote:
I think I red some things on annotations in the Visual Editor, but I can't find it again. Do you have relevant informations on the subject? I like to use template like {{why|blabla}} and {{according to who|blabla}}, but in the same time I can see that while making a contribution call to knowledgeable people, it can quickly clutter the text with a lot of underlined sentances. So it may be interesting to have an option to hide/show this kind of query.
Sorry, just saw this; we have some vague plans to add an out-of-page commenting tool to VisualEditor in the longer term, along the lines of how Google Docs handles things, possibly using the Flow system if that's appropriate, but these are not solid and certainly are not planned for us to work on them in the near future. :-)
There's also the question of how to handle HTML comments (which are sometimes used for editor-facing annotations) and whether this replaces them or would sit alongside them.
Such a tool would also interact with the real-time collaboration and chat work that we're planning to do next fiscal year (so, from July 2013 onwards), so it's worth properly discussing with interested parties.
J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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