Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-20302766-20130407124958/@comment-188432-20130407151249

Yeah, basically the button to enable MessageWall is pretty simple. It just selects to turn certain namespaces and coding on or off. When you turn on MessageWall, it automatically checks for whether there's something in the user talk namespace and leaves behind a link on the MessageWall page if there is. The reverse isn't true, but your messages on a MessageWall are preserved if you turn MW off. You can't get to them, but they're there. So if you turn off MW, add stuff to the user talk page, and then re-enable MW, you should find that all the stuff you just added will "magically" be created into an instant index.

By creating a subpage archive like you suggested, you're kinda going against the design philosophy of Message Wall, and people from other wikis who come to yours won't naturally "get" what you're doing.

NOw when you say "merge" what are you talking about? Is Wikia going to actually close w:c:sherlockholmes? I can't imagine that they would. Genuine wiki merges—where two wikis go in, but only one emerges—are kinda rare at Wikia and they must be handled by Wikia Staff members. If you have permission of both communities, it's indeed possible that they might merge them for you, in which case you wouldn't need to do all this importing and exporting.

But if you're just taking pages from one wiki and putting them on another, then sherlockholmes will remain "live" at Wikia. This would then make the linking I suggested possible.