Saidit.net — Feb 5, 2019 — Minor site fixes and updates, full self-voting, removed all remaining mentions of gold, removed useless preferences tabs

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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's funny. I'm going to refuse to hesitate. If I don't know which ideas are good or not so all hesitation does is limit both the good and bad ideas. I am not the one with the good/bad filter.

Regarding the "hardest part" or "where to display the annotations" I recommend somehow logging a user directed anchor.

That anchor can be invisible, an icon, or feature "new highlighted text" - or my preference: insert a (citation-like) highlighted reference number with a corresponding highlighted reference number and new text content below, after that paragraph concludes (rather than as a citation at the end of the page), potentially creating a kind of running critique/dialogue punctuating paragraphs with alternative views and notes.

Highlighted colours could indicate different things such as: personal private note, public shared note, reference, refutation, other perspective, propaganda, counter-propaganda, liberal, centrist, conservative, trutherism, correct, incorrect, grey area, etc etc etc.

Perhaps it may be helpful in learning how, in the history of an article, when you look at the "Difference between revisions of "[Article name]", it displays the specific paragraphs that have been changed. Knowing how they do that may help lead to knowing how to place anchors, even if/when the text changes.

I'd rather have an add-on than a script. Also, a lot of folks don't trust JavaScript. Is there a better language? I'd rather have a JavaScript WikiNotate than nothing.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I recommend somehow logging a user directed anchor.

That's what I've tried to do at the moment, but MediaWiki doesn't output much context information. (There's no reason for it to; I wouldn't have written it to do so.) That means that any anchor's location information will be obliterated by anything but a minor edit.

with a corresponding highlighted reference number and new text content below,

That's the plan

after that paragraph concludes (rather than as a citation at the end of the page)

Ooh. I like that idea.

personal private note, public shared note, reference, refutation, other perspective, propaganda, counter-propaganda, liberal, centrist, conservative, trutherism, correct, incorrect, grey area, etc etc etc.

I was going to use "different sources of annotation" or make it user-customisable. That's a hard-to-implement feature, though.

Also, a lot of folks don't trust JavaScript. Is there a better language?

Sadly not; JavaScript's horrible to program in! (And they're right to distrust it.) But the add-on would be written in JavaScript too, so having a basic JavaScript bookmarklet version is a good start.