On 23 January 2012 18:09, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since it's unlikely the foundation mailing list will agree to enable > such a comment section on every Wikipedia article (although enabling > it is quite easy: just choose a "comment" extension from > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and > enable it on Wikipedia), maybe we can talk about implementing it on a > separate website. > > For example, create a website named WikiSocial.com. This will be a Web > 2.0 version of Wikipedia, which lets you browse Wikipedia's content > but also provides Web 2.0 social features such as the comment section, > social sharing buttons (e.g. "Tweet this article"). > > Any interest? :-)
There might well be some interest, but it doesn't sound like something the Wikimedia movement would do. There is nothing stopping someone else mirroring Wikipedia's content and adding a comments section. The whole point of having Wikipedia be free (as in speech) is so that other people can re-use it in interesting ways, and this sounds like a good example of that. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l