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

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On 22 January 2012 23:31, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:

> The wiki way to talk may be favored by the Wikipedia community, but is
> really weird to the general public.

The name 'talk page' is also a terrible name and very ambiguous as to
what it is.  A far more appropriate candidate for such a page's name
would be 'collaboration page', 'work page', 'improvement page' and so
on.

I understand why many people believe it to be a page to talk about the
article at hand rather than how to improve it.

A comment section under the article (or a trollpage like on Wikinews)
seems unlikely to benefit anything.  Most of the comments will be
unimportant, useless or altogether pointless.  And those few comments
THAT DO provide some insight or interest in the subject could either
be better used incorporated into the article *or* will get buried
among the thousands of other comments.

You think [[Cats]] isn't likely to get a lot of stupid cat comments?
And while changes to articles are worthy of maintenance for most
people to volunteer to do, I sincerely doubt you will find many who
would manage a comment system on Wikipedia.  And it *will* require
management to be useful.