Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-5518179-20150330205533/@comment-5518179-20150404153745

First things first, I want to thank everyone for being specific on why or why not we need message walls/article comments, and I've pretty much came to the conclusion that we're not used to them and we have difficulties adjusting.

I've devised a bit of a plan here and that is that we're going to vote for message walls and article comments and see how they go. If we get a successful vote, we'll have one week to save/back up our user/page talks (the time can be extended at the end of that week, should enough users need it), and then after two weeks, we will start another vote and see how well the community has adjusted to message walls and article comments.

At that point, should the vote pass, we will extend until another vote one month later, if it doesn't pass, then any mention of re-adding article comments and message walls will return when another user decides the vote is necessary again.

Another point I'd like to add is that the longevity of talk pages are kind of running out. Knowing how quick Wikia is to apply a change most of us won't like, I wouldn't be surprised if talk pages are dropped in the near future and replaced with comments/message walls. It happened with navigation, it'll likely happen with talk pages too.