User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1724320-20110927181030/@comment-1656630-20110928201144

Hi Cook Me Plox (and everyone else contributing). Thanks for the thorough and thoughtful responses.

Yes, it is absolutely our goal (and theory, and vision) that improving our communication tools will help grow the number of users who contribute useful article content. This even directly relates to our revenue model: useful articles get pageviews from logged-out visitors, and bring in ad revenue. There's not much money in hosting conversations between users, but we believe that great communication tools make new users more likely to stick around, learn to edit, and care about contributing. That is what we're working toward. As for the specifics…


 * User Talk Protection -- We share your concerns. The team made a change to the specs in the last 24 hours: admins will be able to edit the archives. We're also thinking about ways to keep Special:WantedPages more manageable.


 * Comment page names - will be much cleaner than they are with article comments (both in Recent Changes and in URLs). I don't have the specifics, but you'll see it with the test version.


 * Anon notifications - We'll be studying and adjusting for this during the test phase.


 * Seeing full conversations - Great points! I'll make sure those get passed on and discussed.


 * Pagination - This seems like it will be a lot easier to evaluate once we're using the system. I've passed on the request to customize the number, but whether or not 20 feels "right" is something we won't really know until we're using it, so how bout you weigh in about it again then?

We're keeping active editors in mind with these features (just as much as new users), and we believe that aspects of this feature will make communication more effective and productive for a lot of people. But most of this is just speculation and hypothetical debate, so let's see how it goes in the testing phase.

Thanks!