Last modified: 2014-06-03 18:27:00 UTC
Talk pages are *really*, *REALLY* important for new 'users' to become 'community members' on Wiki. We should expose them.
That's right. There's tremendous value to being able to discover talk pages via the app. Some longtime Wikipedians were actually converted to editors after discovering talk pages!
Yes, definitely. I think the way talk pages are handled in Mobile Frontend experimental mode is going in the right direction. Although talk pages are complex, and can be especially confusing for newcomers who are trying to post to them, the mobile formatting already goes a long way toward making them seem more like a conventional discussion forum, and even if we don't want to *encourage* newcomers to edit talk pages, at the minimum we should make it easy to find and view them. For me, one of my common usages for mobile is to post a source link on the talk page, so that I or another editor can later use that source to improve the article. MFE experimental makes this pretty easy; it'd be nice if I could do the same workflow in the app.
This was de-prioritized for the first release. For now you can still type Talk:<page_name> in the search bar and go there.
