How to comment
In addition to contributing your own personal profile, tool and practice pages (see How to contribute), you can also contribute comments to existing content.
Collective intelligence tools should of course allow people to comment in a number of ways. On the other hand, too many commenting features will make the site unusable and fragment the conversation. As this is a pilot project, we're experimenting with different approaches.
We currently support the following options:
- use the comment form at the bottom of each page;
- or, you can contribute your version of the entire page (see below)
In subsequent phases we may explore other options, particularly if the resulting conversation shows a more substantial collaboration is required - eg:
- set up the equivalent of a 'talk page' (cf wikipedia)
- create a dedicated object on a separate platform best suited for the discussion, ranging from hackmd.io to airtable.com
Contribute your version of the entire page
Arguably the most powerful, but also the most complex method.
As set out in Become a Massive Wiki contributor, you can clone this site's GitHub repository to your machine, edit any file you like and submit it back to the repository, where:
- we can use GitHub's commenting function to discuss your edits line by line in GitHub.
- or we can simply publish your changes, if they are inserted as comments, so that others can see and comment on them in turn. Please simply follow the paragraph you're commenting on with a new version, indented and preceded by the date and your name.
Revision Notes
2023-01-11: (ML):
- the other commenting options: it's what we discussed, but not for Phase 1, so I returned it with that caveat.
- other slight edits, incl. requirement to include date in comments submitted via page contribution
2023-01-08: (WLA removed this entire section. We do not have plans to support this for Phase 1. Or do we?)
- If the resulting conversation shows a more substantial collaboration is required, we (or you) can:
- set up the equivalent of a 'talk page' (cf wikipedia)
- create a dedicated object on a separate platform best suited for the discussion, ranging from hackmd.io to airtable.com