On 19 April 2013 03:28, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
I think I red some things on annotations in the Visual
Editor, but I can't
find it again. Do you have relevant informations on the subject? I like to
use template like {{why|blabla}} and {{according to who|blabla}}, but in the
same time I can see that while making a contribution call to knowledgeable
people, it can quickly clutter the text with a lot of underlined sentances.
So it may be interesting to have an option to hide/show this kind of query.
Sorry, just saw this; we have some vague plans to add an out-of-page
commenting tool to VisualEditor in the longer term, along the lines of
how Google Docs handles things, possibly using the Flow system if
that's appropriate, but these are not solid and certainly are not
planned for us to work on them in the near future. :-)
There's also the question of how to handle HTML comments (which are
sometimes used for editor-facing annotations) and whether this
replaces them or would sit alongside them.
Such a tool would also interact with the real-time collaboration and
chat work that we're planning to do next fiscal year (so, from July
2013 onwards), so it's worth properly discussing with interested
parties.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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