User blog comment:Arcaedia/Enabling Article Comments/@comment-24388235-20150505103916

I'm new here, so I don't know how this wiki was meant to be and stuff, but here's my 2 cents.

Wiki editing has some entry level and a learning curve. Some people don't notice the Edit button, or don't know it works for everyone. Others can be afraid the wiki markup is complicated, and they might break existing content. Comments, on the other hand, provide an easy way for the readers to leave feedback. It's not the intended way to contribute contents to a wiki, but it's the user interface most people are familiar with. Also, getting answers to comments makes people feel valuable (kind of a 2-way feedback), and may encourage commenters to create an account and contribute as editors.

From what I can see, comments are loaded dynamically when a reader scroll down past the Categories section and the interlanguage links. So they appear only if the reader deliberately scrolled down to the end to see if there's more, and they don't appear if the reader stopped at the middle of the page. So it's not that much of a clutter for the article look&feel.

Sure there will be noise like "I didn't get Pacifist (((" and so on. There will also be people asking for tech support (some might think this wiki is run by the devs), and to help them with their walkthrough. When Mankind Divided is released there will be lots of these, and that's my main concern. Are people running this wiki ready/willing to deal with this?

That said, I'd also expect valuable comments describing mission walkthroughs, passcodes, etc. And I think it's this valuable info that would make the commenting feature worth it. Because a wiki is all about content, right?

So why not give it a try and see how it works out? And if it's more pain that it's worth, turn it off.