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

[Yao Ziyuan]

This comment section idea can be an experiment. If it does more good
than bad, we can keep it. Otherwise we can remove it. It's just as
simple as enabling/disabling a MediaWiki extension.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 23:08, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> They can do what academics have always done: read each other's
>>> published works and go to conferences. If a subject is so obscure that
>>> only a handle of researchers are involved in it, then it probably
>>> isn't sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article anyway.
>>
>> That's exactly an "egg first or chicken first" problem. Great
>> discoveries almost always come from rarely known ideas.
>
> I don't see a problem. Academia is very good at coming up with new
> ideas that start off very small and obscure and, if they prove
> promising, grow and become mainstream. It is only once they have
> grown, at least a little, that they become appropriate subject-matter
> for an encyclopaedia.
>
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