But Sumana... If this is integrated into the visual editor... Maybe it can serve as something similar to "Inline cleanup templates"[1]. No?
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Inline_cleanup_templates 2013/4/12 Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org> > On 04/12/2013 10:42 AM, Richa Jain wrote: > > Hi, i have written a rough draft for my proposal to outreach program and > > gsoc and need your suggestions regarding this. > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rjain/Gsoc-Prototyping-inline-comments. > > > > Thank you. > > Richa Jain, thanks for sending around this link! It would be great if > you could add more links to your user page so we can see the code you > wrote for "Experiences at IITR", the hubot script, and so on. > > What is your aim for this project? Would you try to get it deployed > onto Wikimedia Foundation websites such as Wikipedia? Or is this meant > to be an extension that other "third-party" wikis, such as > http://practicalplants.org/ or http://en.battlestarwiki.org/ or > http://wiki.blender.org/ , use instead of talk pages? I can tell you > that for an idea like this, the former is orders of magnitude more > difficult and probably impossible in the scope of a GSoC project (I am > not exaggerating). If, as your title implies, you really just want to > come up with a prototype, please clarify this in your proposal. > > For a project like this, it seems to me that interaction design is > crucial, as is learning from the past experiences we've had regarding > discussion functionality in MediaWiki. For instance, what lessons have > you learned from looking at LiquidThreads, DiscussionThreading, > Comments, SemanticComments, ArticleComments, or Commentbox? > > > Just think of an article stating a debatable fact. It would probably > attract people to make inline comments stating the fact rather than using > the talk page. > > I'm not quite sure what you are saying here; are you implying that it is > currently a problem that people are using talk pages to debate > particular passages or sentences within articles? I think we would > still have to have talk pages or similar functionality in order to allow > people to discuss the article as a whole, and so the design of any > additional functionality would have to ensure that the discussion didn't > fragment. So, I encourage you to gather and write a lot of user > stories, problem definitions, research, and so on in order to better > ensure your plan is doable and to ensure you're making something people > can use! The design list > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design would be helpful to > consult. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
