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User Interaction Consultation/EXAMPLE: Q&A

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Brief Description

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A way for readers to ask questions about article or subject content

Problem it solves

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  • People have questions while they read and right now they go elsewhere to ask, rather than starting a discussion on Wikipedia. This is inconvenient by forcing a context switch and is a lost opportunity to make articles better. For instance, a user went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth and then left the site to ask a question about something they read. Here is the question: "Why does air contain argon, specifically?".
  • Right now, Wikipedia states information as fact and few readers are aware of the fluid nature of truth. By asking questions, they uncover nuance and judgement.

Details

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Potential implementations:

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Concerns

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who is going to answer questions? how do we avoid issue of same question being asked over and over? who will moderate to remove awful questions?