User blog comment:Mira Laime/Introducing long-awaited Discussions updates/@comment-5301680-20190330001825

"It’s been a long time since you’ve seen a meaningful update to Discussions, leaving communities feeling rightly frustrated with the state of Discussions and with Fandom for not providing long-awaited features." Absolutely true. I'm glad that you finally stopped ignoring us. But that's just as a side blow.

As @Fandyllic stated the article tags will probably be the most useful feature we were waiting for. Because we didn't know if and if yes, when it will come, we had to create our own — working but more time consuming — solution. So we'll be glad to supersede that with the new feature.

Unfortunately, a search is still missing in the discussions which sometimes makes it hard to work with an encourage users not to post redundant content…

It's true that wikis by itself do not acquire new editors automatically. The Community Feed will do that just as an alternative to the main page but won't change whether new editors are acquired by article pages or not. If the main page did a good job may vary from community to community — no doubt about that. But it already had the ability to do so.

And I still disagree that discussions play an important role in acquiring new editors for the wiki. And here's why: From my experience as an admin in several wikis I know that discussion-only users are often younger than the wiki editors and even if they know that there's a wiki they're not interested in contributing most of the time. Discussions and wikis are far too different for that.