Grants:IdeaLab/Visually supress and restrain long discussion texts
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Project idea[edit]
What is the problem you're trying to solve?[edit]
Text flood. Requests and some other areas sometimes are flooded with text by some editors that do not care about others editors. Some Talk pages resembles a blog comments area with tons of offtopic comments and retrospective events that do not add anything new to the discussion. Too much text are a nuisance and decrease community engagement in decisions such removing/attributing statuses, tools testing and evaluation etc.
- Background
This problem is recurring in Wikipédia Português, maybe some others projects do not face this issue. Some editors are used to flood discussions with a lot of text invalidating discussion. The excessive text decrease the community participation and interest in decision
What is your solution?[edit]
- Visually hide long texts in 100 words or less in new comment system, the hidden text will be optional reading
- Only the first 100 words are taken in consideration in decision-making
- Add a word counter in text editor so users can control the amount of words
- Add an estimated text reading time in Talk pages
- Allow multiples authors sign a single text, if this reduce text amount
- Other
- The word count can vary, can be set by the community
- Which texts will follow this rule? Initial texts or only comments, all texts etc
- Limit editors to comment once in some pages
Project goals[edit]
- Restrain text amount/text flood by some editors
- Decrease overall text amount in pages
- Decrease reading time
- Attract news editors to statuses that used to require a lot of time because there is a lot of off-topic text everytime...
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