No that was someone's idea, but not mine. I like having the "Make a Comment" button at the bottom of each article, as this would mimic what readers are used to seeing at other sites. I don't that this would create a seperate section on the Talk page however, as I think this would clutter the Talk page with a lot of casual comments. When you read the comments on say a YouTube video, you get a lot of one-liners and people talking back and forth and so on. I don't see this as a way to improve the article, only a way to allow casual readers to make comments. It seems like just that possibly more-friendly approach might bring people into the project as editors as well. I'm 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 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 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 the >> same argument on Wikipedia.>> > > --------------- > What? That Wikipedia puts a "comment on this article" and someone > says "I > love this person" and "we" or at least someone decides that fan mail > is not > something we want ? > > I suppose there would need to be a guideline started to decide what > sorts > of things are OK for comments. > > Will > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l