Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-9605025-20191016171103

Scociophobia wrote: Will it be possible to move all of the Forum contents to Discussions/DPL? I am not staff, so perhaps the answer has changed. However, previous answers to your type of question have been along the lines of the following: - I repeat and.
 * DPL/wiki-syle forum
 * Not much conversion needed as both this and threads parse wikitext. The main differences would be:
 * appearance
 * the ablity to link to a specific post
 * where the info is stored
 * wiki-style: one page
 * threads: many pages
 * who can edit
 * wiki-style: anyone, any post
 * threads: the poster and those with discussion moderator rights
 * Discussions/Feed
 * The posts will have a final HTML rendering made and the HTML will be copied as the post. Further edits will have to be made to the HTML version not the original wikitext (which will be discarded).

- Not on-topic with thread conversion but still related to the blog:
 * So, the conversion is resumed despite a previous (fairly recent) claim that it is halted untill there is better pairity between Discussions and threads?
 * 1) Will the Message Wall and Comment replacements be as disconnected from the wiki content as Discussions?
 * 2) Are there any plans to make Discussions more connected to the actual wiki content?
 * 3) Is one of the issues how each comment is stored as a different page? If not, could wikis be giving the option to just disable the features but leave the content as is; effectively archiving it? This question has some personal motivation behind it as I have been slowly working on a JS script for displaying article comments on wikis where the feature has been disabled. However, if everything is going to be converted for all wikis by mid-January, then there really isn't much point in continuing.
 * 4) When will wikis be presented with the option between wiki-style and Discussions? Or are wikis that want wiki-style going to have to actively contact staff before some automated convert-everything-to-discussions script just happens to get around to processing the wiki?

Do we know yet how much is going to change as a result of the unified platform? Previsouly, the MediaWiki update was majorly promoted but now it sounds like there might be some additional major changes as well. Also, why does it seem like these updates are affecting FANDOM more than Gamepedia? I have trouble believing it is all due to the outdated MediaWiki. It seems more likely that someone decided to make FANDOM like Gamepedia or we just aren't hearing about all the changes to Gamepedia.