Hi Daniel,
I hope to clarify the question you asked. Let's say userA highlighted the text "sunflower stalk" and wrote an inline starting comment.
Now userB decides to give an inline reply to the inline comment.
Are you asking about how the system would handle a case in which userA shifts the highlighting from "sunflower stalk" to "green leaves" at the same time when userB is adding the inline reply? (and you have userB who thinks his inline reply would be appearing next to the "sunflower stalk" text.)
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Daniel Mietchen < daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Anthony,
interesting feature. How would the system handle cases in which the content originally pointed at when making the initial inline comment has been changed?
Daniel
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Anthony cs3245hw4@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I have applied for the Prototyping Inline Comments for the Google Summer
of
Code.
Essentially, the project is an extension that allows any wiki user to select text and then make an inline comment or a reply to an existing inline comment. Imagine: a user lands in a Wikipedia article, selects one sentence and leaves an inline comment that others can optionally read and reply to.
Users can make useful comments regarding specific part of articles, which will be a part of collaborative work. The key benefit is to users to collaborate easily - because this actually allows you to point to
something
and comment in direct reference to it. It's like pointing your finger to
a
piece of paper and telling your friend sitting next to you, which can
only
be done in person and is currently impossible over the Internet. So it's
a
really powerful feature for collaborations since it makes one of the Internet-impossibles into a possible action.
That was for the insertion of a new comment. For the replying part, it
will
be a format will likely be similar to how threads are like in a forum,
for
the prototype.
As I go along the project, I will be posting more technical details and updates. From now til the end of the project, I do hope to get everyone's feedback along the way :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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