Associate non-body content such as annotations and talk to a location in the article.
- Could integrate with Flow – Inline flow conversations
- Yay Medium!
- Vaguely on the VisualEditor roadmap for rich annotations – associated {{cn}} with a selection of text; blame maps; …
- See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Annotation
Challenges:
- Preserving the target association when content is edited.
- Could leverage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/MediaWiki_DOM_spec/Element_IDs -- yes!
- On some articles we might be talking about hundreds of "annotations".
- Need a clever UI to make this manageable.
- More discussion = more moderation needs
- Yup. Any change that encourages more people to write text also needs a way to encourage more people who can patrol & moderate. That's the engine that drove wiki development in the first place; we have to make sure we keep following that path.
- This is closely related to having citations linked to the exact statement being corroborated.
See also T48440: Implement inline comment support using OKFN annotator (though Flow would be more likely to be the basis of a WMF implementation, rather than Extension:Annotator).
Imported from https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/New_Ideas_for_Editing