Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1687225-20150411185545

Comment Section or Talk Page Comment Section Talk Page

So I haven't exactly been the most active admin, so someone may have addressed this already, but I can't help but notice that most times I log on to this wiki, the wikia activity displays a bunch of people making comments--some pertinent, very often not useful--while less-than-optimal amounts of actual editing happens.

After reviewing various comment pages, I conclude that while some comments are indeed useful, the commenting culture (so to speak) developed of this wiki is unintentionally hampering productivity of the editing. You see, back when this wiki first started up, it was common practice for the editors to review edits quickly and easily using the wikia activity log, so people could constructively build upon each other's edits in an efficient manner. As traffic increased on this wiki, however, so did the number of inane comments--to the point where the comment sections of the pages are receiving more attention than the pages themselves.

I propose that we use the talk page system that some other wikias use--see the Call of Duty wiki, Last of Us wiki, or Fire Emblem wiki as examples--and getting rid of the old comment sections. I notice that on these wikis, talk pages more often than not focus on actually improving the content of their associated pages. I want to test my theory by implementing it here, with two goals:

1) Cutting down on the amount of non-important traffic so that users can quickly and easily get to the information they need

2) Increasing useful edits from the user/editor base.

Please vote and leave your thoughts and comments (ha, ironic) below. 