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

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On 23 January 2012 18:16, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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).

Perhaps, but Wikipedia (and MediaWiki sites in general) are one of the
few remaining websites that benefits from being Web 1.0 rather than
Web 2.0, even if it has elements of the latter.