Re: [Commons-l] File comments and favourites : an experiment

The foundation mailing list recently discussed "Like"-buttons for articles, to improve community building and attract new editors. I thought about improving Commons for the less-techie community. So I looked at Flickr, and the "community" part on image pages consists mainly of comments and favourites counter. Commons can have comments (say that quickly three times in a row!) on file talk pages, but I've rarely seen "oh, I like this" as a comment there. Nothing wrong with that, Commons has a more "serious" aspect to it... But what if, in addition to the usual Wikimedian ways, there were easy "favs" and "comment" functions in Commons? Right under the image description? Have a look (you need to be logged in for the full flavour): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanger_Institute_and_Hinxton_Hall,_C… Beneath "Licensing", there is now "Comments and favourites", with a few test comments of mine. I've also added this as a "favourite" of mine, being my own image and all ;-) If you are logged in, you can add one-line comments (with wiki syntax), and set/remove the file as a personal favourite. These actions are stored and logged in two ways: On the talk page on the file, wrapped in templates, and on your user subpages: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/My_file_comments and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/My_favourite_files respectively. For the technically inclined, script is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:FileComments.js There could be plenty to do in terms of development: Editing/removing comments (comment author and admins only?), fancy comment input dialog, a "Log in or Sign up to comment" link for anons, etc. So: Comments? ;-) M. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l