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

[Yao Ziyuan]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> A comment section under every Wikipedia article seems to be a very bad
> idea. You read a Wikipedia article to learn about the subject at hand, you
> can read comments on the talk page. Reading the talk page only makes sense
> when you are interested in learning more about what people have to say
> about the article or the subject. Typically I am not and I am sure that
> most of our readers could not care less.
>
> Having comments in your face at the bottom to me is not only something I
> would resent, it would also add more clutter that I have to download every
> time I read an article. Given that more and more people read Wikipedia on a
> mobile, it is added real cost with debatable benefit.

I see this idea is unpopular among the maling list, but I still want
to point out that the "download" part is not true. Comments can be
dynamically downloaded (e.g. AJAX) on a on-demand basis (only when you
click "Show comments" would comments be downloaded and shown to you).

>
> Interesting idea, sure. Strategic hell no.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> On 22 January 2012 22:43, 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".
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Ziyuan Yao
>>
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