User Interaction Consultation/EXAMPLE: Q&A

Brief Description

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

Problem it solves

• 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

Potential implementations:

• make reference desk more accessible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk,
• make inline templates like this: ^{[citation needed]}Template:By whom more accessible
• bring up an annotation layer, as shown here: https://via.hypothes.is/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholinergic_neuron

Concerns

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?