[Development] Disabling "talk pages" on wiki.qt.io

[Axel Spoerl]

+1
Bugs should be tracked in https://bugreports.qt.io
Discussions can take place in https://forum.qt.io

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Subject: [Development] Disabling "talk pages" on wiki.qt.io

Hi,

the Qt wiki has "talk pages" which people try use as forum or bug
tracker. Nobody (maybe apart from moderators) reads these pages, and
people are writing effectively to /dev/null. This lack of feedback
leads to long faces and certainly doesn't leave a good impression of
Qt's community.

Example: https://wiki.qt.io/Talk:Main I've answered the
stuff on that page now and added a "don't use" warning at the top.

 From a quick glance it seems that it's possible to disable or at least
hide talk pages in mediawiki. I think we should do that. Is anyone
opposing this step? If so, what's your use case for talk pages?


Cheers,

Joerg

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