Draft mode

(English) This is an essay. It expresses the opinions and ideas of some Wikimedians but may not have wide support. This is not policy on Meta, but it may be a policy or guideline on other Wikimedia projects. Feel free to update this page as needed, or use the discussion page to propose major changes.

Draft mode is a design idea. It affects drafts and revisions, such as the articles for creation at english wikipedia, drafts namespace at english wikipedia, code hosted on a wiki, and also whatever else you may find it applicable to. The idea includes a set of new features.

It can be an article, a page with code such as your own script page, or a code snippet object inside of an article.

Read view (nothing major, it's just as is)

No comments are visible when reading an article.

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*Read* |Talk| ... |History| |Watch| [search box]

Article content goes hre. Article content goes

here. Article content goes here. Article content

goes here.
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Draft/talk mode (layout of the comments)

When you click 'talk' tab, a draft mode is enabled, with comments visible. Some of them belong to a section, some belong to a paragraph, and some belong to the entire article. Those which belong to the entire article are shown above its draft display.

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[Link to Archives aka outdated comments] [search box]
                                                   \
== Tone ==                                          |
The entire article is written in promotional to      > comments relating to the entire article
ne. -~.~.~.~                                        |
  I am working on it now. -~.~.~.~                  |
    Thanks! -~.~.~.~                               /


--------------------------------------------------  <----------------- The current revision
Article content goes hre. Article content goes    |
                      ^--------------------------------British spelling -~.~.~.~
                                                  |       Fixed -~.~.~.~
                                                  |           You made a typo, I am fixing it too -~.~.~.~
here. Article content goes here. Article content  | 
                                                  |   Per-line (or per-section) comments to 
goes here.                                        |   an item. These are a used by programmers and 
........                                          |   scientists to perform review of their work.
...                                               |         These comments are attached to a particular article, and 
--------------------------------------------------          have a note of which revision they were attached to.
                                                             
                                                            It should be possible to mark a comment as outdated, 
                                                            so it is not visible in future revisions.

Draft/talk mode (viewing archives)

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== Links ==
Too many broken links, prefix https. -~.~.~.~
  Fixed. -~.~.~.~
    Yup, thanks. -~.~.~.~

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... content goes http://herewikimedia.org.   |
                      ^--------------------------------URL typo, this should also go to external links -~.~.~.~
                                             |            Fixed -~.~.~.~
Article content goes here. Article ...       |
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