On 30 April 2014 08:52, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We do have such a feature in MediaWiki, though: mediawiki.feedback.js. It's
just a JavaScrip popup which saves the comment to a page on the wiki.
many of
which would not otherwise comment at all. And for some tools (such as
UploadWizard) there is no obvious place to leave comments, and opening
Bugzilla is a new-tab + multi-step process away.
UploadWizard (like VisualEditor) uses what above. Maybe it needs an option
to be offered more prominently under some conditions?
This is probably the most viable option here, almost no technical effort and
more value in output.
It's certainly simpler to implement, but anything that involves
on-wiki recording has two main problems:
* friction in saving the entry (eg edit conflicts, login required,
user IP blocked)
* privacy problems (comments are public and effectively attributed)
This isn't much of an issue for things like "please give us feedback
on the new fancy upload tool" - where everyone can be expected to have
a functioning account and aware of how the wiki works, but if you're
going to be gathering feedback on reader-focused things it breaks
down.
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- Andrew Gray
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