[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40031: Consider Adding Web Annotations to WordPress

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#40031: Consider Adding Web Annotations to WordPress
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 Reporter:  MikeSchinkel     |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments         |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:  ui
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Comment (by jdgrimes):

 I'm rather new to annotations, so I may not understand this proposal fully
 yet. At first I just assumed that this was about having WordPress support
 in-post comments, but now I realize that it is about the completely other
 end of annotations: storing the comments that a website owner leaves as
 annotations anywhere else on the web. I guess being a CMS, and annotations
 kind of being content, that makes some sense. But this sounds like
 basically adding support for an entirely separate class of content than
 WordPress is currently built for, mostly under-the-hood. Or whatever UI it
 did have would require some modification from what is in core now. Are we
 even talking about actual annotation management being provided through
 WordPress, or essentially just storage? I'm also not clear whether we're
 talking about possibly having WordPress display annotations, like as a
 list of "things I've been annotating recently", kind of like a blog, or
 whether that is outside scope here as well.

 Honestly, although I like the idea of annotations, I'm not comfortable
 with the idea of decentralization if it completely ignores the wishes and
 copyrights of the publisher of the annotated content. I'm not sure it
 would be entirely unjustified to say that this ticket is trying to turn
 WordPress into a glorified content-scraping and republishing engine. Not
 saying that's really accurate, but doesn't implementing this require us to
 scrape and store the annotated piece of content in some way, or at least a
 portion of it? If the publisher hasn't specifically granted that right,
 eventually folks should get into legal trouble, it seems to me. (Though of
 course, I'm not a lawyer.) Maybe it isn't that much different than Press
 This, but then, maybe that's just to say that Press This can be abused to.
 The difference though is that with annotations the entire type of content
 is designed around this by definition.

 Anyway, like I said, I'm fairly new to annotations, but that's my initial
 thoughts.

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