Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-27345308-20191016230626

Mira Laime wrote: You could move your current Forum conversations to DPL wiki pages, yes. Keeping the original edit histories with author attributions intact could be problematic, though, because each individual post and reply in the Forums is its own page, technically speaking, and a wiki-style forum conversation is on one page, edited by multiple authors. By far the easiest path would be to have Forum content moved over to Discussions by January to have it archived and not lost, but to use DPL forums for your new and future conversations, to make a gradual shift towards DPL forums as your main conversation space. I know of all the limitations of such a move, but it's still technically possible to achieve this with the import tool. Would you consider not enabling Discussions on wikis that properly migrated all content and attribution of Forum posts to wiki-style forums?

I guess what I'm asking here is, do we actually have a choice of whether or not Discussions are getting enabled on our wikis, even if, in cases of not getting them enabled, we would have to go through a complicated process to make wiki-style forums a proper alternative to them?

Mira Laime wrote: Wikis that never had Forums will not automatically have Discussions enabled, since there is no Forum content to migrate. We have, in the past, enabled Discussions on communities that didn't have Forums. Sometimes because they requested it themselves, sometimes because the community was abandoned and we hoped that might bring new users in, and sometimes - and this was not right! - against the explicit wishes of the community because we disagreed with them on whether Discussions would add value to their wiki. I don't know which of these cases applied to the Yellow Undertale Wiki, but if a wiki didn't enable Forums in the first place, they won't automatically get Discussions now. So, Undertale Yellow Wiki is the last, bad, one? Because I explicitly requested Forums to be disabled after removing what little content we had on there (the option to disable it was already removed from WikiFeatures), just so Discussions don't get enabled on the wiki automatically. Will you be doing that to other wikis in the future, and did you consider reversing your decisions on the wikis where enabling Discussions went against the will of the community?