Hi Daniel,
I hope to clarify the question you asked. Let's say userA highlighted the
text "sunflower stalk" and wrote an inline starting comment.
Now userB decides to give an inline reply to the inline comment.
Are you asking about how the system would handle a case in which userA
shifts the highlighting from "sunflower stalk" to "green leaves" at
the
same time when userB is adding the inline reply?
(and you have userB who thinks his inline reply would be appearing next to
the "sunflower stalk" text.)
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Daniel Mietchen <
daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi Anthony,
interesting feature. How would the system handle cases in which the
content originally pointed at when making the initial inline comment
has been changed?
Daniel
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Anthony <cs3245hw4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I have applied for the Prototyping Inline Comments for the Google Summer
of
Code.
Essentially, the project is an extension that allows any wiki user to
select text and then make an inline comment or a reply to an existing
inline comment. Imagine: a user lands in a Wikipedia article, selects one
sentence and leaves an inline comment that others can optionally read and
reply to.
Users can make useful comments regarding specific part of articles, which
will be a part of collaborative work. The key benefit is to users to
collaborate easily - because this actually allows you to point to
something
and comment in direct reference to it. It's
like pointing your finger to
a
piece of paper and telling your friend sitting
next to you, which can
only
be done in person and is currently impossible
over the Internet. So it's
a
really powerful feature for collaborations since
it makes one of the
Internet-impossibles into a possible action.
That was for the insertion of a new comment. For the replying part, it
will
be a format will likely be similar to how threads
are like in a forum,
for
the prototype.
As I go along the project, I will be posting more technical details and
updates. From now til the end of the project, I do hope to get everyone's
feedback along the way :)
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