[Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

Sun Jan 22 22:23:49 UTC 2012

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 22:08, Yao Ziyuan <yaoziyuan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For example, on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat , we can have a
>> single discussion area that can both talk about the editing of this
>> article and issues related to cats (e.g. petting them).
>>
>
> Well, English Wikinews has what you are looking for by having an
> Opinions namespace. See, for instance,
> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_candidate_Newt_Gingrich_wins_South_Carolina_primary
>
> Given that we informally refer to it as "trollspace", I'm not totally
> sure of the value of encouraging low-value, anonymous Internet
> comments. We aren't craven pageview whores like our friends in the
> commercial news website business who are quite happy to trade
> intellectual standards (seriously, read a newspaper comment column)
> for advertising money.

I forgot to mention, each user can show/hide the proposed comment
section under every Wikipedia article. If you're not logged in, the
comment section can be hidden by default.

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