Board Thread:New Features/@comment-28083312-20161107082458/@comment-24473195-20161107083952

You can petition all you like, but it isn't likely that they'll reverse their decision. A group of users have set up a thread for this:

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:1106806

Suffice to say, they are likely just wasting their time. Dpl forums provide the only other alternative if wikis don't want the new forums because eventually all forums in all wikis will be converted to Discussions.