User Comments threads underneath each page (Jeremy 6/10)

10th April 2018

If each page were able to "host" a user discussion (as a discussion thread that is easily revealed at the bottom of each page) this might "lower the bar" for user participation and engagement of the wider Community of Practice. Key points:

  • Only registered users are able to write comments on the content of the page
  • "Rules" would include:
    • Limit comments here to the content/layout/evidence/style of THIS PARTICULAR PAGE: it is about refining/improving CONTENT
    • Local teams may wish to create links to their local versions (use the "Snapshot" (or "permalink") tool to create a link to your local version that others can use to open it)
    • We hope particular pages might gather small groups of practitioners from different services who take a particular interest in that specific area of practice/theory
    • Some Moderation is in place (ie we delete offensive posts)
    • Content in threads must be constructive
    • Content in threads must not be repetitive or overly long - a paragraph or two at most, not long theses!
    • There are predefined Criteria for accepting suggested edits to page content
    • Accordingly, the intention is that discussion threads could/should lead to changes to page content, and where this happens, the original authorship of these edits is acknowledged wherever possible
  • More general comments about the manual can be made here Feedback please!
  • TECH TASK: In the default view mode for each page, these discussion threads should be "folded out of view" - with a simple button to open them - otherwise they could take up too much space on the screen (assuming anyone uses them!).
  • TECH TASK: a system that allows any registered user (only users registered to one of the AFNCCF wiki-manuals) to publish comments that are seen by ALL (not just members of their own team/wiki) members of that Community of Practice. Perhaps their comments could be recorded in separate included spaces (one each for AMBIT, CWP, MBT-F, etc?) that are transcluded to the base of the relevant tiddler in ambit-content/cwp-content/mbtf-content, etc.