User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-1788742-20110930165635/@comment-1788742-20110930171952

But most wikis will only choose one or the other. That is, wikis who are strongly opposed to Message Wall will simply leave it off. I think that this should be an option not through Wikia Labs, but through Special:Contact. Most of the wikis I edit on, for example, abhor this idea, and would leave it off. On the other hand, other wikis will embrace and appreciate this. So I think that after the Community Central test, it should be able to be turned off via Contact. And I know I'm biased, but I think turning Message Wall on will ruin our communications.

I'm certainly open-minded to this though, and willing to give it a chance on Community Central. But I think this needs to be a removable option if a community so wishes it, because I'm worried, like Godisme said, that that we're no longer using MediaWiki software, but "MediaWikia" software. If that's what some communities want, then that's okay with me. But this needs to be able to be turned off if a community so wishes it.