Policy:Development Notes
Wikipedia Mirror with Comments
- All Wikipedia content pages will be periodically scraped and stored into the data base as a "fixed article." Comments created by our users can be associated with an anchor (a subheading, paragraph or phrase) in the article.
- Users may choose to update the Wikipedia page at anytime for a small charge...5 cents.
- Any comments that becomes unanchored (due to a change of content) will float to the top...immediately following the lead summary, and the authors will be notified that their comment is afloat and offered an opportunity to re-anchor at the most appropriate place the comment at no charge...unless they change the content of the comment, in which case a charge will be incurred.
Benefits
- This approach limits our memory requirements to only current pages of Wikipedia, not archived pages.
- By storing the page as a single item, it should be easier to float the comments, and limit how much of each comment is displayed. In this mockup, comments have to be embedded using the MediaWiki format structure. It would be more ideal to have comments sorted in a different database structure so they can be attached to not only Wikipedia articles but any article developed within our platform.
Watch Pages and Archival of Watch Pages
- Users can elect to receive a ping (text or email) anytime a watched page is modified or commented upon. No charge, since we want to encourage interactions.
- Users can elect to save a watched page in a personal archive. They will then be able to run a compare to see any changes made between the current page and their archived watch page. Charge: 5 cents per year per archived page.
Benefits While we may want to retain a set of recent versions of the page that can be viewed free of charge (as per Wikipedia)... perhaps all versions within the last 10 days, or if infrequently changed, the last five versions, there is no need to retain the complete history of page changes as is done by Wikipedia. Let's save memory while allowing users to pay for the privilege of retaining old copies of a potentially "preferred" version of articles they are interested in.