This is a great topic for discussion! But please can we call it something other than "Annotations"? How about "Remarks"?

We use the word "annotations" very heavily in the VisualEditor codebase to mean the styling applied to bits of text (bold, links etc; see https://github.com/wikimedia/VisualEditor/tree/master/src/dm/annotations ). It will make our job really difficult if we have to talk about, say, annotations within annotations inside annotations (e.g. italic links in a remark). The codebase also uses "comments" (less heavily) to refer to HTML comments.

That's something that have been in a discussion on the wikisource-ml to.

Such a feature should in fact be merged on a larger project which enable to switch misc. comments, like {{refnec}} boxes and so on. This way one may go into a "clean readable version". But if the function should be heavily used, it wouldn't make sense to include this comments directly in the article, unlike {{refnec}}. This would require both

• an UX design, to enable to pick which comments should be displayed, according to categories, authors and so on
• a software integration design, to determine where and how data should be stored and processed

@Mglaser @MarkAHershberger Hey! As developer summit is less than four weeks from now, we are working on a plan to incorporate the ‘unconference sessions’ that have been proposed so far and would be generated on the spot. Thus, could you confirm if you plan to facilitate this session at the summit? Also, if your answer is 'YES,' I would like to encourage you to update/ arrange the task description fields to appear in the following format:

Session title
Main topic
Type of activity
Description Move ‘The Problem,' ‘Expected Outcome,' ‘Current status of the discussion’ and ‘Links’ to this section
Proposed by Your name linked to your MediaWiki URL, or profile elsewhere on the internet
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Any supplies that you would need to run the session e.g. post-its
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1. Add your name here

We will be reaching out to the summit participants next week asking them to express their interest in unconference sessions by signing up.

To maintain the consistency, please consider referring to the template of the following task description: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149564.

Seems to be pretty much the same as T149667: Build an article annotation service?

Ping to anyone subscribing that a closely related session has been proposed as an unconference session today (under Annotations / T151958)

You can certainly keep the idea, but it won't be fixed on Annotator, hence the task was declined.