Hey Vitus and Brandon,

I noticed both of you are very experieced Editors, and that your Discussion posts are a relatively new part of your involvement at Wook.

What was it that made you decide to get more involved in Discussions? Many Editors across many FANDOMs barely set foot in Discussions, despite their wealth of knowledge and potential to raise well thought out and reasoned discussion. By visiting the various 'Talk:'pages it's clear that there are plenty of great discussion topics that remain out of plain sight, and only debated amongst Editors.

I see a whole heap of potential to engage the ever flowing stream of new faces and some of the old ones too..

How many other editors with 10,000 plus edits still avoid Discussions and why?

What can be done to bridge this gap?

Can you share some of your personal experience in thst regard

Interesting question. I think there are three key reasons for why editors don’t often engage with Discussions.

1. Product limitations

2. The nature of wiki editors

3. Legacy reasons

The way Discussions is currently built makes it fairly tucked away in the desktop world. Unless a wiki chooses to embed a Discussions feed module somewhere, the only connective tissue between a wiki and a Discussions is the Discuss button in the page header. Because of that, there’s an element of it being out of sight, out of mind. That’s contrasted with the FANDOM app, where the wiki and Discussions are much more unified. Discussions is surfaced more in the app, and that’s why most Discussions users are in the app.

In regards to the nature of wiki editors, editors are often a much different type of user than someone who wants a commenting experience. Wiki editors often contribute long-form, in-depth, and highly researched content. A commenting experience is much more lightweight. On the one hand it would be easier for a wiki editor to enter Discussions than for a Discussions user to enter wiki editing, but often times the interests don’t overlap.

The legacy reasons are that FANDOM used to be only a wiki farm, and there are a number of people who have been around for years that view the platform as being one that should exclusively be for wikis. Discussions, as well as FANDOM.com editorial and other features, is sometimes viewed as a distraction from that original wiki-exclusive purpose.

As for me, I set up Discussions here in its earliest incarnation in preparation for The Force Awakens. I was active probably for a few weeks, and then turned things more over to community members. I came back as a result of some of the ongoing issues, and now I’m sticking around for the foreseeable future!

Question : why do the ships in the TFA &and TLJ need gas now. Like the First Order tie which GL said stands for ( twin ion engine) and has solar panels?

But was tethered to a fuel line when poetry & Finn try to escape. X-wings travel through hyper space and don't run out of fuel so does the falcon.

Please remember that this thread is about specific concerns, issues, threads, reports, and replies, not a general AMA thread. As for your question Paul, I'm not very sure why to be honest.

For your question The Dark Mac, which is a pretty interesting question, I was a reader of Wookieepedia for many years but I first participated on Discussions before transitioning to editing as well. As for why not many editors join Discussions, I'll have to agree with Brandon there, I think he covers it pretty well.

We see a small amount of editors coming to join Discussions, but also a small amount of Discussions members that become editors. Hopefully both worlds are brought closer and closer as we hope to continue to improve and develop Discussions more and more.

Do we really need this kind of attitude in this community?.. I realise it’s a bio, but still this is kind of harsh.

To carify, that's DarthNils' bio, and I agree.

edit: as in I agree it's a bad attitude, not that I agree with it.