User blog comment:Jenburton/Coming Soon: Message Wall in Labs/@comment-26753070-20111026003550

Well, if you go by if people are using it more on the test wikis, you have to remember to take into account people trying it to get a taste of it, so those messages can be discarded. The discussion about the message wall on message walls can also be discarded since that isn't a constant feature that would cause the continued rise of usage.

I would love the idea of this being optional. Different wikis have different things that work for them. The best part of a wiki is how each one of unique from the next, and that attracts different types of users to the site. If it's a more technical or computer based thing, it might be nice to have room to allow for the users to make use of that. If it's something like a preteen's TV show, it might be helpful to attract people if the wiki is dumbed down as much as possible.