Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-26304798-20160603155900

Hello dear Oddworld Wiki users and editors!

A somewhat small but meaningful change to the wiki today; comments on articles have been disabled and replaced with the traditional Wiki talk pages. Since the announcement of Oddworld: Soulstorm the commenting system has had a chance to show its true colors, which resulted in the Soulstorm article receiving a lot of comments from people excited for the game. Of course it's great that people want to show how excited they are for the new game, but wiki articles are not meant as discussion platforms. They are, by very definition, meant to be a repository of information for everyone to read and edit. Blog style commenting at the bottom of the page does not contribute anything meaningful to this process, especially since the content someone might have commented on years ago may not even exist anymore.

The talk pages serve as a place where editors can come togethers to discuss certain issues with an article, and how to solve them. This is something the comment system just isn't designed for, especially when it gets clogged with a long list of random comments or even spam messages.

Of course, you may still express your excitement for Oddworld on this wiki if you wish. This forum may be used to post whatever you wish, but there is also a much more established forum available to discuss Oddworld related things. The unofficial Oddworld forums are linked at the top of this forum and anyone who wishes to discuss Oddworld with other fans will find more people to talk to there. The wiki, as it stands, is fairly inactive when it comes to social interaction.

So in short, the wiki has slowly but surely been going back to the core function of what a wiki is supposed to be. Comments are out, talk pages are in. And hopefully they will better help the editors of this wiki to communicate problems with one another.

Happy editing! And don't forget to sign your edits when using the talk pages ;)

TigerXtrm 