On 11/20/06, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
That's true, but it's still a good idea. How about having different things in different places? A tab up on top would be useful for obvious problems with the article that people see before they read it. A big box on the bottom saying "[[Wikipedia:Notifying us of problems|Was there anything wrong with this article?]]" or whatever would allow people to report problems after they read the page, but it wouldn't disrupt reading experience because it's over. We could also change section editing's "[edit]" to something more specific, or add another link right next to it to link to the same page that the bottom box links to.
Yep. How do we get started? We're basically agreed that we want: 1) Some visible front end for anons - possibly in the "anonnotice" (whatever that is), possibly in the stylesheet to make it appear at the section level, or at the end of the article. Anyone know how to make this happen?
2) A place that this links to, which preserves state (ie, where it came from), offering a range of common problems, and where to go for help for problems that aren't addressed there.
3) A way of collecting more information depending on the type of problem
4) A way of transforming then storing that information on the article's talk page. Ideally it will also be stored on a centralised page, but if not, categories will be used to centralise these requests.
I don't know how to implement any of these, except perhaps 2 (not sure about the statefulness). Worse, I don't know what's involved in implementing them, like whether MediaWiki itself needs to be modified. Can JavaScript do all this? If so, presumably monobook.js or something can be modified? Anyone know?
Steve