User blog:Acebatonfan/Wiki news: changing to talk pages

Hi, everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying the last of their summer or the start of a new school year! Woohoo! (**cries from the nightmares school still gives me years after graduating**)

You may have been receiving some notifications about blog posts from Fandom over the past few weeks. Fandom is in the process of migrating its community with Gamepedia. With the migration comes updates to modernize the Fandom platform and MediaWiki code we all use to participate in the Roblox Wikia. The update - the Unified Community Platform (UCP) - requires us to make some changes on the Roblox Wikia so that the transition to the new platform is smoother for everyone.

One big experimental feature on Fandom was article comments and message walls. Fandom has reported that these features will not be merging onto the new platform in its current state. We administrators and moderators of the Roblox Wikia have discussed the upcoming UCP migration and how to best transition our community to it. Our big issue with the UCP transition is that their proposed message wall and comment features do not allow traditional Wikitext. We very frequently use Wikitext on our wiki’s message walls, such as our notices to editors that the page they just made was moved. To not have this feature will make managing the Roblox Wikia significantly more difficult on our side.

Our decision is to disable comments and message walls and to instead use talk pages. This feature, though older, will better transition us to the new platform since Wikitext will still be allowed on these platforms. We understand that this is going to be a big and sudden transition for everyone, but we hope that this little bit of frustration now will save us from much more in the future. Many of you might not be familiar with these older features, so I want to give you a quickie tutorial on the most important things to remember when using talk pages. You can find your talk page at Special:MyTalk.

Talk pages 101
For more information about talk pages, Community Central has a nice help page.

I am also going to include a video briefly going over everything and showing step-by-step how to post message on talk pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp_U_JLwC2U