User:Kaitymh/sandbox

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.

Potential implementations:

 * make reference desk more accessible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk,
 * make inline templates like this: 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?