User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: October 18, 2011/@comment-1429792-20111021224927

Since "User_blog:Jenburton/An_Update_on_Message_Wall" has been locked, I'll post this here even though it relates solely to message walls.

Edit: And on Recent Changes instead of it saying an edit was made by "Yyp (Talk | contribs)" it now says wall "Yyp (Wall | contribs)". Maybe this is just me but I really feel that "Talk" give a far better indication of what you will get if you click on it that "Wall" does. In Recent Changes on the Community Test wiki, replies to a wall post are grouped in a collapsible, er, menu thingy, which is titled  (9 changes)... etc.

I find this to be extremely bad. It makes no mention at all of what the messages are in reply to, which I very strongly feel it ought to. This is on top of Ryan PM's point below about how the original post on a wall conversation appears. I'll take Darker than Black Wiki as an example. The main character is called Hei, and naturally enough there is an article called Hei. Now what if I post a message on a fellow users wall on that wiki with the subject header "Hei". They will appear very similarly on Recent Changes. Ideally it should be very obvious that they are not the same, but the way Wikia has this set up it looks as if it will be very hard to tell them apart. It should state that it is a wall post and whose wall it is on in addition to the subject header.

And Darker than Black Wiki is a small wiki, just 250 pages and preciously few contributors for a series that is long finished. Much busier wikis whose subject matter is ongoing will suffer far more from this unnecessary issue.

Please see also this wall, click the "view all 5 replies". Very long words do not stay within the confines of the box but go off the edge of the screen instead.