[Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

[Yao Ziyuan]

Since it's unlikely the foundation mailing list will agree to enable
such a comment section on every Wikipedia article (although enabling
it is quite easy: just choose a "comment" extension from
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and
enable it on Wikipedia), maybe we can talk about implementing it on a
separate website.

For example, create a website named WikiSocial.com. This will be a Web
2.0 version of Wikipedia, which lets you browse Wikipedia's content
but also provides Web 2.0 social features such as the comment section,
social sharing buttons (e.g. "Tweet this article").

Any interest? :-)

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at 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