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

[Oliver Keyes]

Note that we are adding a sorta-quasi-comments section, just not on the
articles; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5

On 23 January 2012 17:31, Svip <svippy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation