User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: October 10, 2016/@comment-4129195-20161011205109/@comment-24473195-20161011212022

That's the strangest sentiment. There are two reasons people engage in wikis or contribute, either they find something interesting that they want to improve or correct. Or they get involved in some social part of the wiki and later come back to improve upon it e.g arguing about some pokemon character or some fictional battle. Using wikitext based forum is hands down the most horrible experience a new editor can have. It doesn't any useful instructions, it relies on wikitext, something that the average person doesn't learn in school or any "normal place". The very first post one can incur the ire of editors, by accidentally blanking a section, or forgetting a signature, or leaving some markup that damages the whole "talk page".

The thread based forum doesn't work  well either. First the search sucks, secondly it scrambles html and wikitext markup and may return some googlygoop with a simple copy and paste, it can easily be broken by adding unbalanced html tags, it doesn't work on mobile, and it is incredibly inconsistent. It also uses a huge hack on mediawiki by adding each comment as if it were a "new page", and fills up maintenance categories with pointless crap that is generally harder to clean up.

Heck instead of allowing just random conversation, Staff could simply implement something like a wikicaptcha that can for example automatically correct wiki typos, or suggest images for articles or something meaningful, a.k.a microedits.