User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1280533-20110926195645/@comment-1280533-20110926222539

So for Article Comments and Talk Pages, they are completely independent, and ne'er the twain shall meet; thanks for clearing that up.

Regarding automatic pagination - if a relatively old section is replied to some days later, will it get bumped to the top, or will we have to search all the way down the page to find a recent reply (like we have to do here)?

The reason I have for putting newer things at the bottom is that when you create a reply to a message at the top, won't it go to the bottom of the replied-to section, like they do here? For a long-ish page of messages, you would have to scroll down to the bottom of that section to see the new message, but no further down than the top of the next section. With new messages at the bottom, you'd know that a reply would go to the very bottom of the page, and can get straight to it with the End key.

Regarding signatures - the Wikia staff already have their @Wikia label added to the byline, how is that done? Could a custom signature not be implemented in the same way?

The issue I have with "Wall" is the similarity to Social Networking sites (but I'm sure that's probably the inspiration for such a name). As many people have said in these comments, Wikia isn't a Social Networking site. When it comes to public view, only the things that are visible to other users appear to them in the tab strip anyway, so I wouldn't have thought that would be an issue. Alternatively, of course, if it involves replacing the current talk page format, you could just call it Talk page. EDIT: or, and I can't believe I didn't think of it earlier, Message Board, considering that's pretty much what it is. Just not something with Wall in...

I'm interested also in the "Archiving" of the talk page and where it would go to:
 * If it is being put somewhere, then it must still "exist" with all of its contents
 * If Staff are able to edit it on request, then it must still be editable; so why not by anyone?
 * What would happen to an existing talk page archive, say User talk:Enodoc/Archive 2?

An ironic observation: I first heard about this on Facebook. Perhaps you should throw out a Sitewide Message about it? It's a big change that people who don't follow the staff blog may only find out about at the last minute, and would not have enough time to give their feedback.