On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
The introduction of Talk pages was, it should not be forgotten, one of
the most brilliant innovations of the early days of Wikipedia.
Indeed. A very intelligent friend of mine said he often finds the talk
Bod Notbod wrote:
One of the proposals on the strategy wiki has recommended an
adjustment to talk pages. I added that perhaps the tab should be
called discussion/feedback to encourage people who are primarily
readers to let us know what they thought of an article without it
necessarily
How something's framed can shape how it's used.
I would never have a comment on this article page, it's pointless and a
monitoring nightmare. We'd get arguments and dramas, then we'd be expected
to clean them up, BLP and negative material and accused of sheltering one
side when we purge them...
2009/9/4 FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com:
What I would think more likely to succeed? A Help us improve tab, not a
comment tab
Specifically with a header and edit notice If you can see a way to improve
this article, or better more up to date information, let us know!
+1
Brilliant!
I also might
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:47 PM, FT2ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
What I would think more likely to succeed? A Help us improve tab, not a
comment tab
One of the proposals on the strategy wiki has recommended an
adjustment to talk pages. I added that perhaps the tab should be
called
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/4 FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com:
What I would think more likely to succeed? A Help us improve tab, not a
comment tab
Specifically with a header and edit notice If you can see a way to improve
this article, or better more
this to the general wiki community
somewhere and gauge the reaction?
Will
-Original Message-
From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:58 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
Simple suggestion: A big green button at the bottom of every page
marked Comment on this page which creates a new section on the
discussion page.
Good idea, but we would get dozens of OMG I LUV THIS PERSUN!11!!!.
Simple suggestion: A big green button at the bottom of every page
marked Comment on this page which creates a new section on the
discussion page.
Good idea, but we would get dozens of OMG I LUV THIS PERSUN!11!!!.
Emily
On Sep 2, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On Thu, Sep 3,
In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:21:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bluecalioc...@me.com writes:
Yeah, but see, the thing is, you don't own the blog. The person
writing it does (well, technically, the blog hosting service does).
They have the right to not have a comment show up. We could use
In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:24:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
majorly.w...@googlemail.com writes:
Or worse, THIS PERSON IS A DIRTY PEDO1!! (or something as bad).
Could
be problematic for BLPs.
--
We already get that. So this wouldn't change that issue.
I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what
sorts of things are OK for comments.
I thought we were talking about how to make the talk page more
accessible...
Emily
On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:19 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:21:35 AM Pacific
: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what
sorts of things are OK for comments.
I thought we were talking about how to make the talk page more
accessible...
Emily
On Sep 3, 2009, at 1:19 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/3
not sure it would, it's a trial balloon.
Will
-Original Message-
From: Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 11:20 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
I suppose there would need to be a guideline started
2009/9/3 Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com:
I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to
allow casual readers to make comments.
THANK YOU for the clarification!
It is, of course, *also* a good way to get input from people
frightened by the idea of editing for whatever
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:19 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/3/2009 7:24:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
majorly.w...@googlemail.com writes:
Or worse, THIS PERSON IS A DIRTY PEDO1!! (or something as bad).
Could
be problematic for BLPs.
--
We
Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 11:20 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what
sorts of things are OK for comments.
I thought we were talking about how
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:06 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Y'know, we have pretty much no facillities *just for the reader*.
I thought they had things called articles they could read? :-)
Seriously, some of the better portals are hard for readers to find.
And I'm not sure how
I just today noticed a new interesting thing while doing a Google search.
Under each result there is a cloud looking thing and if you hover it it
says Comment. So I tried it.
Would someone else try this Google search
arsenic and old lace youtube
Just like that with the quotes and
Nope, no comments shown. If you click on the See all notes for this
SearchWiki button below the results, it says no public notes have
been made for the search results for [arsenic and old lace youtube].
What's a SearchWiki?
Nathan
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2009/9/2 wjhon...@aol.com:
To make this thread on-topic, I wonder if there would be any advantage is
allowing comments, separate from Talk Page comments, on our articles?
I notice that many casual readers will leave comments which you can
generally spot as they are not-tagged-with-a-sig
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
I just today noticed a new interesting thing while doing a Google search.
Under each result there is a cloud looking thing and if you hover it it
says Comment. So I tried it.
In the Google search settings page, I followed a learn
I notice the button to submit a comment is labelled Make a public
comment; confusing!
Maybe what they mean is Make a comment, generic member of the public.
Emily
On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Luna wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
I just today noticed a new
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. Wikinews does this - they have a collaboration page for editors
working on the article, but a comment page specifically for readers
to spout forth. Would be good.
Yes, there's no good reason we should subject casual
: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:58 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. Wikinews does this - they have a collaboration page for editors
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