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

[Thomas Dalton]

There is already a discussion page attached to every article. It's for
discussing the article, though, rather than its topic.

While we are more than a conventional encyclopedia, we are still an
encyclopaedia and I don't think we should add job and product adverts to
our articles.

If people want to make friends, they can go to Facebook. If people want to
find or contribute encyclopedic information (and, perhaps, make some
friends along the way as an added bonus) then they should come to us.
On Jan 22, 2012 9:43 PM, "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
>
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