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This is a proposed plan for a project to add annotation support to the MDN wiki powered by [https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/ Kuma]. It's a longer-term project; something we need, but isn't necessarily urgent.

==Project statement==
The goal of this project is to encourage more community involvement--and to improve our ability to collaborate--by adding support for annotating and commenting on all or part of a document on MDN.

Features desired:

# Ability to attach notes to a selected area of a document
# Ability to reply to those notes
# Ability to archive and/or delete notes
# Spam filtering
# Needs to be fully integrated into MDN, with no extra software required, and any logging into the service needs to use the same one as MDN itself
# Should be able to toggle the interface for annotations on and off
# Ability to "ping" people whose attention is needed
# Possible integration with the review request mechanism?
# Support for indicating when an annotation is no longer relevant (such as when its ideas are integrated into the article, or have been determined not to be relevant)

==Goals==

* Improve collaboration on MDN by making asynchronous discussions possible.
* Get more people invested in participating in the documentation process by letting them comment and add notes to articles if they're afraid to edit the content directly.

==Inspirations==

* http://hypothes.is/ - This is very, very similar to what we want, although we'd need to make changes to integrate it better into MDN. To try it out, visit http://hypothes.is/alpha and create an account.
* '''This page has several Hypothes.is annotations on it, so try it out.'''

==Additional thoughts and requirements==

==Development resources==

* Need to evaluate using Hypothes.is as a basis: http://hypothes.is/

==Next steps==

* We should have the interested parties try out Hypothes.is and take notes so we can have a discussion about what we want here.