+1 to Hypothesis and similar tools kind of already doing what you're thinking of. I would use the energy to contribute to it: https://github.com/hypothesis/client, and it's possible that you might find ways to optimize it for wikis via a gadget.
They've probably solved the "parent paragraph updating" problem you mentioned here. So at the very least you can find inspiration there. But I imagine the issue of storage and all that is tricky. There was a W3C working group that the Hypothesis people were part of, I remember we half-heartedly wanted to join but never did.
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 7:41 PM Gergő Tisza gtisza@gmail.com wrote:
If you just want to annotate a web page without assistance from that page, and let you share then annotations, that's not a Wikimedia-specific problem and there are generic tools for it. The popular one is Hypothesis https://web.hypothes.is/about/, I think. There even was an attempt to build something Wikimedia-specific on top of it (see the task Kosta linked), but it can be used directly as well. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/