User blog comment:Mira Laime/Introducing long-awaited Discussions updates/@comment-954127-20190403105810

Overall, I like it, and trust me I'm not you all's biggest fan when it comes to changes. Sadly, Wiki text really should have been supported, but if it can not, it can not.

It has been truly a struggle to be able to tie the Discussions to the wiki. While hated, having the "Latest Discussions" moved to the right column under "Popular Pages" might bring more interest to it. Most people avoid the bottom of the articles with all the picture links. Also, I think it'd be a good setup on articles to have a button (not too big though) next to the Share button with the terms "Let's Discussion" and that would transport the user to Discussion to start a new conversation, with the tag being the name of the article they came from.

Overall, the truth is that Wiki's have always struggled with being open to outsiders, and if Discussions was retooled just right, it could bridge that problem without destroying the article content that is so prized to begin with.