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

[Yao Ziyuan]

For example, on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat , we can have a
single discussion area that can both talk about the editing of this
article and issues related to cats (e.g. petting them).

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Article Feedback Tool v.5 and the current "Talk" tab are for
> discussing *the editing of the current article*, not for discussing
> *the topic represented by the current article*, although I think these
> two goals can coexist in a single discussion area.
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
>> On 22 January 2012 21:43, 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".
>>>
>>
>> Sounds a bit like Article Feedback Tool v.5:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFT5
>>
>> --
>> Tom Morris
>> <http://tommorris.org/>
>>
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