User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-957747-20111001030941/@comment-3123266-20111002004428

One page per comment may be less of a resource hog. With talk pages, comments are incrementally added so the history log can occupy quite a bit of space. I prefer a separate history-log for each comment, rather than scan though the entire history-log (for a talk page) to check if one comment has been changed.

I've toyed with idea how to simplify the url. Suppose that we have "Message:" namespace that works like "User_talk:" and "Topic:" namespace that works like "Category:" (and twitter's #topic syntax). Using as example the URL http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_blog_comment:Jenburton/An_Update_on_Message_Wall/@comment-Starfleet_Academy-20111001012836&permalink=327909#comm-327909 ... The beauty of this is that, one message can be reply to multiple messages, by appending a link to the "sending" message to the "receiving" messages. If I don't like the reply, I can just unlink it from my message. A message with no links to it becomes an orphan (or "ignored"). This may require some configuring on MediaWiki but no PHP code changes I would think. Some javascript and CSS will be needed to display / load the messages properly. Gah! I have school and work to worry about... and I still have The Last Airbender film to work on. http://images.wikia.com/templates/images/3/3c/Icon_crazy.gif
 * The Jenburton's blog post can be in a page Message:Jenburton/20110930162000 that has Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall embedded
 * Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall page will contain Topic:Blog_Posts, Topic:Staff_blogs, and Topic:New_Features. Users viewing Topic:Blog_posts will see Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall listed. Viewing Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall will list Message:Jenburton/20110930162000.
 * When Starfleet_Academy reply to Message:Jenburton/20110930162000, it will create a new page Message:Starfleet_Academy/20111001012836 with Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall automatically embedded. A link to Message:Starfleet_Academy/20111001012836 will be appended to Message:Jenburton/20110930162000. Viewing Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall will now list Message:Jenburton/20110930162000 and Message:Starfleet_Academy/20111001012836.
 * When Anakin_Skyobiliviator reply to Message:Starfleet_Academy/20111001012836, it will create a new page Message:Anakin_Skyobiliviator/20111001014218 with Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall also embedded. A link to Message:Anakin_Skyobiliviator/20111001014218 will be appended to Message:Starfleet_Academy/20111001012836. Viewing Topic:An_Update_on_Message_Wall will now list Message:Jenburton/20110930162000, Message:Starfleet_Academy/20111001012836, and Message:Anakin_Skyobiliviator/20111001014218.