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

[Yao Ziyuan]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 23:25, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> How would you measure how much good and bad it did? There is no point
> doing an experiment unless we have clear measures of success.

If it's useful, we expect to see researchers claiming in the news that
they got like-minded colleagues from Wikipedia's comment sections :-)

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