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

FT2 ft2.wiki at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 00:16:26 UTC 2012


+1.... exactly

There are 3 basic kinds of dialog - ** editors and participants actively
hoping to improve the article; ** feedback that is intended to have a
decent proportion of useful comments and can be sifted for them quickly;
and **  "chat about the topic, article, and anything else people get into".

However you label them, whatever means and venue we were to use, the third
of those is where the question mark goes.

FT2


On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Sure; if the objective is to have comments by "people who are interested in
> the subject, can identify the relevant venue, can identify how to edit the
> relevant venue, are aware that they *can* edit, can handle wikimarkup and
> can deal with the fact that a lot of editors see "wide-ranging discussions
> on a subject" as utterly irrelevant and subject to removal unless they
> directly suggest alterations to the article content" instead of, well,
> "people who are interested in the subject".
>
> On 24 January 2012 23:05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> > On 01/22/12 3:44 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> >
> >> On 22 January 2012 23:39, Svip<svippy at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >> English Wikinews calls it "collaboration". On English Wikipedia it
> >> used to be called "talk", this was changed to "discussion", and it was
> >> recently changed back to "talk".
> >>
> >>
> >>  I don't care what you call it. The talk page is still the best place
> for
> > wide ranging discussions on a subject.
> >
> >
> > Ray
> >
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