User blog comment:Mira Laime/Introducing long-awaited Discussions updates/@comment-32573398-20190330002205/@comment-20644-20190330062048

I completely understand that perception. We’ve neglected the core wiki experience for a long time in favor of other features and it’s understandably led to the feeling that wikis are being left behind. That’s something we’ve talked a lot about internally over the last 8 months as we’ve made a lot of internal changes to how we operate. And one of the main points that’s come out of that is that we need to build from our core strength, which is wiki content. It doesn’t mean that will be the only experience on the site, but it should be built from the idea that wikis are the core experience&mdash;and that wiki editing needs to be a primary focus.

As we developed Feeds, one thing we decided we did NOT want to do was add wiki content in a way that might not make sense or felt slapped together without much thought. Discussions posts are the easier part to get right. Thoughtfully including wiki content is harder because it's so important. So what we decided to do was have Feeds be a largely Discussions-based experience to start with, but to use user feedback and user research (via our UX Research team) to help us decide the right way to add more wiki content and overall connections to the wiki.

One of the main ideas behind Feeds is that it can be a place where people can find all of the content that’s available on the site. If we left wiki articles and wiki editing behind, it would defeat the point.

We’re committed to doing this right. I know one reply here won’t be convincing, but I think over time our approach will show that.