On 11/20/06, Rory Stolzenberg <rory096(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That's true, but it's still a good idea. How
about having different things
in different places? A tab up on top would be useful for obvious problems
with the article that people see before they read it. A big box on the
bottom saying "[[Wikipedia:Notifying us of problems|Was there anything wrong
with this article?]]" or whatever would allow people to report problems
after they read the page, but it wouldn't disrupt reading experience because
it's over. We could also change section editing's "[edit]" to something
more
specific, or add another link right next to it to link to the same page that
the bottom box links to.
Yep. How do we get started? We're basically agreed that we want:
1) Some visible front end for anons - possibly in the "anonnotice"
(whatever that is), possibly in the stylesheet to make it appear at
the section level, or at the end of the article. Anyone know how to
make this happen?
2) A place that this links to, which preserves state (ie, where it
came from), offering a range of common problems, and where to go for
help for problems that aren't addressed there.
3) A way of collecting more information depending on the type of problem
4) A way of transforming then storing that information on the
article's talk page. Ideally it will also be stored on a centralised
page, but if not, categories will be used to centralise these
requests.
I don't know how to implement any of these, except perhaps 2 (not sure
about the statefulness). Worse, I don't know what's involved in
implementing them, like whether MediaWiki itself needs to be modified.
Can JavaScript do all this? If so, presumably monobook.js or something
can be modified? Anyone know?
Steve