[WikiEN-l] Googley comments

[wjhonson at aol.com]

I think I like "Comment on this page" at the bottom, but I'm hesitant 
to endorse that creating a section on the discussion (Talk) page.  I 
have a reason for my hesitation.

Sometimes readers comments on say "Patty Hearst" might be something 
like "Oh I remember when this occurred, I was in the seventh grade and 
had to do a report on her..."

Now something like that is an interesting way for casual readers to 
spout off, but on a patrolled-article, comments of that sort get 
routinely purged as they don't really help us to improve the article.  
As a casual reader on OPB (other people's blogs) I get annoyed if my 
comment gets wiped or never appears.

I wouldn't be adverse to moderated comments so we don't get "lick my 
ass!" and things like that.

At any rate, anyone want to bring this to the general wiki community 
somewhere and gauge the reaction?

Will



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:58 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments




On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. Wikinews does this - they have a "collaboration" page for editors
> working on the article, but a "comment" page specifically for readers
> to spout forth. Would be good.

Yes, there's no good reason we should subject casual commenters to the
horrors of wikitext. If they can even figure out that in order to
comment they have to click a tiny little link marked "Discussion" (at
the top of the page, not the bottom where every other site does it),
then another tiny little link marked "Edit this page" or "New
section".

Simple suggestion: A big green button at the bottom of every page
marked "Comment on this page" which creates a new section on the
discussion page.

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