Good Evening. >> Comments may be an opportunity, but I think not the best. At least in >> wikipedia, comments are sometimes used to post suggestions (or spam), >> but often ignored by the original author. >> >> I would prefer to have a direct link on each page to the original >> author and the last editor (besides the page history) to get in >> contact with him/her. Also the revision number would make sense for >> translations, as mentioned some time ago. > > I think having comments is better than a link to the original and last > author mostly because sometimes people want to report some small > improvement, but if the overhead of doing the report is too big (opening > an email application, copying the address, entering a subject, write the > comment) than we may loose out on the feedback. Sorry, Dag. I don't agree here. Small changes could be communicated with the Original Author (that's what I am doing, at least and I feel comfortable with). General Discussion should go to the list. If you want to implement a comment system, it has to offer at least a few capabilities, like: Allowing users to edit or delete their own comments. Administrators should be able to review/edit/delete all comments. > Also a comment system can be moderated by a group of people, while private > email/messages may get lost. Then we also need a list of recent comments all over the wiki and the capability to mail changes to the admin group, too. Best Regards Marcus
