Talk Page for each Coin

You know how Wikipedia has a “talk page”  for editors.  It would be nice if Numista made such a page.  That way member can follow a particular coin easier and the information that would be more concentrated.  Currently the Forum Section serves this venue; however, I am sure the same topic or conversations are repeated over and over again.   Thus, implementing a Talk Page will reduce the information overload in the Forum Section to some degree.   All thoughts and suggestions are welcome. ~ Paul M. Paquette 

Seems like a good idea. I don't know how it can be implemented.

Perhaps associate a page of item to one topic of the forum, or vice versa. In the item page add a link to its topic/talk page and in the topic/talk page add a link to its item page. This is for take advantage of an already existing structure (topics of the forum).

A “problem”: in what language? If it is created like a normal topic, its language is the language of the user (eg. Spanish), but users without Spanish in their settings, can not see the talk page. The same for English or French. A solution can be to create in English always and display these talk pages to all users. I think it does not make sense to have a page of item with different talk pages in each language.

Also can create a new forum (displayed to all users) with only talk pages. The talk page can be see in the item page and in the forum, or only in the item page (in this last option, the new forum is hidden, and only is used as container of talk pages).

I do not know how complicate is this. If it is worth it or not.

I don't think it would be very useful if separated from the forum, as the number of Numista active users is much lower than Wikipedia (at least on the languages Numista supports). Do you people periodically check Numista pages for changes?

But I think listing all forum threads linked to a certain page would be an interesting idea.

leopiccionia

I don't think it would be very useful if separated from the forum, as the number of Numista active users is much lower than Wikipedia (at least on the languages Numista supports). Do you people periodically check Numista pages for changes?

Taking a closer look, perhaps would not be seen by many users (at least if all talk pages are not in a public forum, an in this case maybe either).

leopiccionia

But I think listing all forum threads linked to a certain page would be an interesting idea.

I saw this suggestion some time ago, but I do not find now.

davidhs

 

leopiccionia

But I think listing all forum threads linked to a certain page would be an interesting idea.

I saw this suggestion some time ago, but I do not find now.

Perhaps https://en.numista.com/forum/topic64065.html ?

Also https://en.numista.com/forum/topic54182.html .

Zeno.ru already have that feature, but they do not have a “normal” forum like this one.

I think is a good idea but there are too many coins and possibilites and some subjects would be lost in the coin page and the normal forum page.

I like the idea of each N# having its own Wiki page, talk page, and/or forum thread.

For example, I have been trying to collect Guyana 1c, N#4763 .  I have obtained all of the years except two.  I have also obtained a year that is not listed.  I suspect there are no 1983s, even though 12 million were supposedly minted.

I'd like to post a thread saying that I am interested in the series, offering to buy coins of the years I lack, and requesting photos of the coins I believe don't exist.  I could be wrong so I don't want to request changes to that page yet.

I also have a N#168334 in my collection.  That coin is keyed here to “Mitch AC# 2382”.  I'd like to add  another catalog and a note.  “Senior 102.121. (R. C. Senior believes Azes II did not exist and attributes all Azes coins to Azes I.)”.  In ancient coinage, sometimes a coin is sometimes catalogued by two experts with different opinions.  A talk or wiki page would be nice for this situation.

I feel like it would be straightforward to have each coin page include a button to search for forum threads linking to that page.  Perhaps with a weekly batch process to count threads linking to that page, so users would know if the discussion had already started.

Alternatively, I feel like it would be straightforward to create a new forum, the "N#" forum.  Ordinary users couldn't create threads there.  A button on each coin page would create a thread for that N#, with title “N#<the number>”.

Alternatively, I feel like it would be possible to install Wiki software on en.numista.com, and create empty pages for each N# for users to collaborate on research.  It would also be possible to link each N# to a 3rd party paid or free Wiki site.  For example, someone could create numista.wikidot.com.

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For example, I have been trying to collect Guyana 1c, N#4763 .  I have obtained all of the years except two.  I have also obtained a year that is not listed.  I suspect there are no 1983s, even though 12 million were supposedly minted.

 

I also have a N#168334 in my collection.  That coin is keyed here to “Mitch AC# 2382”.  I'd like to add  another catalog and a note.  “Senior 102.121. (R. C. Senior believes Azes II did not exist and attributes all Azes coins to Azes I.)”.  

Going off-topic: Please add the missing year for the Guyana coin (either editing or through a forum post if the years are locked) and edit the Mitch AC# 2382 page to add your comment.