[Wikipedia-l] Strange idea

Tue Feb 1 04:43:28 UTC 2005

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:15:48PM -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
> I thought that perhaps, for a trial period, we could add a
> prominently-placed button in articles for not-logged-in readers with
> the title of "Report an Error or Suggest Information to Add".
> 
> Since so many people don't realise that Wikipedia is for anybody to
> edit, this could take them to a new page that explained in bold
> letters the concept of Wikipedia and that they could edit the article
> themselves, but still have an error-report field in case they still
> didn't get it.
> 
> While this would obviously be open to abuse, it might also provide
> useful feedback from people who otherwise wouldn't contribute
> anything, and would definitely serve to let these people know that the
> power is in their hands, what with the boldly-placed notice that THEY
> can fix it themselves and all.
> 
> I'm sure there would be way too much feedback to ever completely sift
> through, but I still think it might be useful.
Sounds like a useful idea. No need for big codebase changes either,
the "add feedback" form could just be an "add new section" edit form
for the article's talk page.


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