User blog comment:Arcaedia/Enabling Article Comments/@comment-4140166-20150504052306/@comment-26955746-20150504202447

Yes that's the point, people will want to talk about Mankind Divided so the chances are, if comments were enabled on the articles related to Mankind Divided, they'd talk about it there. By referring to the MD blog post, I was trying to point out the fact that if people have the opportunity to conveniently comment, they will.

I'm not trying to be rude, but did you actually read the part about the comparisons with Dishonored Wiki? Let me reiterate: What I'm trying to do is fix the problem that this wiki has with having basically zero sense of community and thus very little incentive for people to stay. Dishonored Wiki doesn't have this problem and from what I can see, the reason is that the editors on that wiki communicate regularly via their Message Walls, and more frequently, the article comments sections. As I've already stated, the problem can't be explained by the fact that fans of the series only return when there's a new game. If you didn't already look at them, I would recommend checking the links on my previous comment and looking at the drop-off in edits on DX wiki compared to Dishonored wiki following the release of the respective games. Dishonored's didn't go down by nearly as much. In addition, it doesn't change the fact that we had a view count of ~20,000 per day before the Mankind Divided announcement; more than enough people for a bit of discussion to take place in my opinion. (By the way I regularly look at the total view count that the wiki gets so I am very aware of the impact Mankind Divided's announcement had on it. In case you didn't look, it peaked at around 100,000 shortly after the announcement but has now dropped to around 30,000). Also it's really worth noting these Google Trends comparisons for searches for Deus Ex Wiki and Dishonored Wiki: X and here is a comparison between searches for Adam Jensen and Corvo Attano (protag of Dishonored): X. You're assuming that people will only talk about the games/visit the wiki if they are currently playing it. That's not necessarily the case either. As I have also already said, people on Tumblr, Reddit, Square-Enix forums and even YouTube comments still discuss the games long after they've been released. It's a specific problem with this wiki that it isn't happening here too.

This is a lot more than comments being more convenient; people don't use Talk pages on any wiki I've been on to have the sort of discussions I'm referring to, like the ones going on in the comments sections of Dishonored Wiki. I've seen similar discussions occuring on other Wiki's forums but no one uses the forum on this wiki either. Mass Effect Wiki even has this notice at the top of their talk pages:
 * This is the talk page for Page Name.


 * Please limit discussions to topics that go into improving the article.


 * If you wish to discuss matters not relevant to article upkeep, take it to the blogs, forums, or chatroom.


 * Thank you.

- see this is what people expect talk pages to be used for - I'm talking about a more general discussion. So no, I don't think enabling comments simply equates to a few more seconds of convenience. Also, I think you're perfectly aware that the part about the 4 tildes was absolutely not my main argument...

Conclusion: Talk pages might be relatively easy to use, but they are rarely used on this wiki, and when they are, they rarely get replies. You say that if people wanted to talk about Deus Ex, the fact that they have to use the talk page wouldn't stop them. I don't believe that this is true, not only because that's not what people expect talk pages to be used for, but there is still discussions about Deus Ex going on elsewhere, so clearly people DO want to talk about it. Also, Dishonored Wiki, a wiki with comments enabled, gets way more discussion going on compared to ours even though it looks like we get more traffic.

Besides, comments sections only negatively impact on the Wiki's aesthetic if people actually use it, which is kind of the point. If it keeps more people on the wiki, I think it's worth sacrificing how good the wiki looks. Content and contributors should be prioritised over looks imo. I don't see any drawback to at least enabling it temporarily.