User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1207433-20110928000923

This is a great idea. No more will we put up with unsigned messages on our talk pages, or people replying in the wrong place or messing up existing comments. It's nice that MediaWiki has a way to discuss the content of pages, but I've always thought that just using the same wholly editable page for discussions was a lazy way to do it. They've never been well-suited to making a multi-person discussion, and you end up with people getting confused about who is talking to who. Taking care of all that programmatically is a much friendlier and effective solution.

I wonder if it would be possible if as well as following a conversation, you could tick a box so that a message would be posted to your own wall (assuming the conversation is on someone else's wall) which would point to the conversation. That way if you have a long two-way conversation with someone else, and later can't remember who it was, you can look at your own wall and there'll be a link to it. It would be handy as well when this is rolled out to articles in the main namespace too.