Board Thread:New Features/@comment-1595427-20170113051047/@comment-4522253-20170113073221

Miiohau wrote: FishTank wrote: Thanks for that. As Discussions is not based on MediaWiki, it's a little trickier to use wikitext (and therefore wiki-style internal links); we're still looking into how to make the best fit for rich content. I understand it not based on mediaWiki I talking more UI like the link editor in the visual editor. It about making Discussions aware of the wiki they on. On the backend I expect the links to still be stored as full URL address. I was talking user experience. It about connecting the  Discussions feel like a connected component rather  than a parallel system that happens to be hosted on the same cloud. We are definitely working to make wikis and Discussions more integrated with each other. However, it might be more helpful to think of a specific Discussions board and a specific wiki as being uncoupled entities. For example, imagine that we're using Discussions to handle comments on a related news and story article. That Discussion might be coupled with an article entirely outside the wiki. Or the same Discussion board might be coupled with multiple individual wikis. They are intended to be interlinked, but it's unfair to say they're not a parallel system. They're connective tissue.

Discussions is admittedly a work in progress, and it continues to involve and add more features. You will see more integration as the component evolves, including the UI.