User blog comment:VickyC/Intro to Wikia’s Development Process/@comment-655-20111014093307/@comment-118323-20111014183758

Hi Cid. Danny and I are working on the Wall. He's been editing on Muppet Wiki for 6 years and I've been on various wikis for 5 years (namely Scrubs). It doesn't take but one edit to realize talk pages are not up to par with internet standards for person-to-person communication.

As an admin on Scrubs, I've seen lots of people stop by and leave messages in the wrong place. This isn't because they're stupid people, it's because our talk page system doesn't make sense to non-wiki people. The flip-side of this story is myself, having missed some conversations because of our current less-than-optimal notification system.

I also did a lot of research on our site on various talk pages of how both new folks and experienced people use talk pages, and these problems were not limited to just Scrubs and my other wikis.