On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > A comment section under every Wikipedia article seems to be a very bad > idea. You read a Wikipedia article to learn about the subject at hand, you > can read comments on the talk page. Reading the talk page only makes sense > when you are interested in learning more about what people have to say > about the article or the subject. Typically I am not and I am sure that > most of our readers could not care less. > > 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. Given that more and more people read Wikipedia on a > mobile, it is added real cost with debatable benefit.
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). > > Interesting idea, sure. Strategic hell no. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 22 January 2012 22:43, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I just filed a feature request which I think is of strategic interest >> to Wikipedia: >> >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33889 >> >> Bug 33889 - Request to add a comment section under every Wikipedia article >> >> By providing a comment section under every Wikipedia article, we can enable >> people interested in that topic to talk with each other, make friends and >> exchange external resources pertaining to that topic (e.g. books, products, >> jobs, external references, etc.). >> >> Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia; it is also a very valuable "topic >> navigation and positioning service" that navigates you to any conceivable >> topic >> in your mind, and once you're at that topic's Wikipedia article, the >> article's >> URL becomes a unique address that "positions" that topic. With this >> position, >> we can do many useful things (such as the ones mentioned in the previous >> paragraph), just like we can do many useful things with a geographic >> information system (GIS) such as Google Earth. >> >> There are many MediaWiki extensions that can add a comment section to every >> Wikipedia article. Just go to >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and search >> for >> "comment" or "discussion". >> >> Best Regards, >> Ziyuan Yao >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l