User blog comment:Arcaedia/Enabling Article Comments/@comment-368004-20150506212750/@comment-26955746-20150506222534

That's a fair point. Maybe you're right, but since at the moment we have no easy way to have discussions on the wiki its impossible for us to be a prime place for them to take place. (I don't necessarily think comments will increase our views by the way, but I'm hoping it might allow us to retain more editors. Editors seem to like talking to each other on sites like this and I reckon they'd be more likely to stay if there's conversations going on between users.)

Your last point is something that I did consider. It seems unlikely that the contents of talk pages at the moment will somehow be converted into comments. However, I don't think they become entirely inaccessible. On wiki's where comments are enabled its possible to access the talk page by directly typing in the url of it. It's just that the "Talk" button at the top of the page disappears. If we are to do this, I'd be willing to go through the various talk pages and link to any on my user page (or maybe in the comments) where any interesting or valuable discussions took place. Do you think that could work, or something similar maybe?