Forum:CT Archive/Enabling the Discussions footer

Hey all,

This past week, Toprawa and Ralltiir and I represented the site at Wikia's Community Connect event. We spoke with some members of the company's Product and Community teams about some of Wikia's upcoming features. One of the main ones is a display tool that would increase visibility for the Discussions section of the site. This tool, called a "footer," lists the top five trending Discussions on the bottom of each mainspace page. Other wiki communities have already had Wikia enable it for them, so you can see an example here on the Marvel Wiki. It appears as "Top Discussions," toward the bottom of the page. Make sure you're viewing the page in the Wikia skin.

Based on our conversations with Wikia staff, I believe that this would be a great tool for us. Our Discussions section is already getting a lot of traffic, so this would only help (and not hinder) overall web traffic for our wiki articles. The footer also only appears in the Wikia skin, so old-school Monobook users won't be affected by it.

To review:
 * 1) The footer only displays in the Wikia skin, not in Monobook. Thus, for Monobook users, it won't interfere with your experience.
 * 2) The footer only appears on mainspace pages.

As a side note, our Discussions userbase has begun to grow into a community that's separate from our wiki community, so this would be a much-needed step toward bridging that gap between us.  CC7567  (talk) 07:10, August 14, 2016 (UTC)

Support

 *  CC7567  (talk) 07:10, August 14, 2016 (UTC)