User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-12385-20160911010806

My biggest concern is over the lack of WikiText, or more specifically, if it removes ability to link to Wiki pages. On Muppet Wiki, that's heavily used and needed (we direct users to other sites for general fan chatter, and use our forum threads to focus on the project; tagging discussions with the page being discussed has also proven really useful). If we have to find a different way to link uploaded images and videos (also done frequently), that's an annoyance, but having to find a new way (cut and pasting URLs?) to connect to pages on the Wiki would be a very serious concern (and seems likely given the statements about discussions not being hosted or connected to wikis the same way). Even our new users make use of it. (If there's an explanation on that elsewhere, I haven't found it; it's definitely not addressed in the FAQ).

If there's any way at all to keep or adjust coding so users can still simply go Page name on Discussions (so it goes to the page on the namespace wiki; not sure if that's even possible given this detachment I keep reading about), that would make the transition a lot easier on us, and presumably other Wikis which use their forums mostly for project purposes (even if it's just "Hey, this is the new page we have!") And if this change ever replaces Message Walls, it would be even more of a necessity.