User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-5473581-20120726035605/@comment-5473581-20120728020856

Various Message Wall Problems

The most recent one I've reported was that audio files cannot be played on the message wall.

Original issues

I know there isn't a default protection level for "admins and page owners", but perhaps there should be, as individual user pages should be locked to the user alone by default anyway.
 * Talk page archives
 * The owner of a talk page should be able to edit their own archived talk page in order to respond to old messages. This is less relevant now as those conversations have been dead for months.  However, I have (previously) left many messages on the talk pages now-inactive users, asking them for followup information, or if they're still active - the fact that they cannot edit their own pages to respond may put them off.
 * Owners of talk pages should be allowed to perform their own maintenance on the talk pages, such as removing dead links, instead of requiring an admin to do it.
 * This issue is also relevant to consider in light of the upcoming forum change - and possible archiving.  While I agree that having two options would be confusing, locking open discussions isn't productive.

Various message wall related links appear on WantedPages There are related three issues with Message Wall and WantedPages
 * WantedPages
 * Support request: https://support.wikia-inc.com/requests/21688
 * Followup: https://support.wikia-inc.com/requests/31177
 * Links to individual Threads appear on WantedPages as blue links
 * Links to archived talk pages appear on WantedPages as blue links
 * Redlinks in deleted Threads/messages appear on WantedPages (This one may have been fixed, I haven't checked)

Although I originally left examples intact for reference, I don't have any extant direct examples, because I changed all problem links to external links to remove them from WantedPages.

I was told that this bug would be fixed. In May I moved pages to avoid the problem, so I have no extant examples.
 * User Talk Sub-subpages
 * Related support request: https://support.wikia-inc.com/requests/22882

ALL talk pages in the user namespace redirect to the message wall, leaving some talk pages associated with sub-subpages in the user namespace inaccessible. Thinking about it now, perhaps the Message Wall implementation should not have been a separate page, perhaps the message wall should be done similar to blogs - at the bottom of the main page. This would enable comments to left at the bottom of each page in the user namespace, including sub-sub pages.
 * Example 1: User_talk:452/Titles works as expected, redirecting to archive of that page
 * Example 2: User_talk:452/Lists/Modifications?action=edit - linking to edit page to prove page has content, view page directly and it redirects to the main page
 * Example 3: User_talk:452/datafiles/Titles?action=edit - a manually inserted redirect works.

While it's not really a bug, it would be nice to be able to leave an edit summary when editing a comment. Doubly so as an admin when editing someone else's comment, it would be nice to be able to have an edit summary noting the justification for editing someone else's comment, which isn't always immediately apparent, even when viewing the diff log.
 * No edit summaries

That's all the Message Wall problem I reported via Special:Contact, and in the thread with Ohmyn0, there may be others I mentioned as blog comments here. All issues with the editor I posted as Blog comments, I'll get to them next.