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 what if a wiki page had... a chat?

what if the chat could be scoped within a particular version of the topic or you could see conversations across the entire topic?

a chat within "pablo's entry of 'nostr' which is a subset of "chat about 'nostr'"

https://cdn.satellite.earth/b97eb77009adaae32f92d168d989b8ca481730762dd3d4bc2661e7a40fb11fd8.mp4 
 Sounds like a good idea. But wouldn't some of the chats get super long? 
 You would only see the last X messages until you scroll up 😅 
 And see the same argument go round and round again  
 it must be friday.. which is demo day 👌 
 Very similar feel to some popular collaborative tools for creating documents 👌 
 I once started doing a browser extension that would be a chat room, using the URL of the webpage as identifier to find and exchange messages through Nostr.

So, when you go to any webpage, the extension would query Nostr to see if there are any messages for that specific URL and present them in the extension chat room.

So that two guys on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness at the same time could have a random (!) conversation. 
 A few days ago, I saw a nostr extension project that allows people to zap freaks on youtube twitter, and github. 
 Like this? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1419 
 Maybe he means comments, not a chat.

I'm waiting for highlights on wikis. 
 Sounds like someone just watched (or should watch) this video:

https://youtu.be/Bzj7u4Q5GG0 ?si=YeeYmCAqAiVjuBx6 
 I think of Wiki as a place where I get one solid information (or truth if you will) and don’t want to shovel tens of opinions that distract me. But I get your point, could be valuable to have the possibility of chat. 
 Seems more relevant to do it Reddit style than chat based.