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

[Paul Wicking]

On 22 Sep 2025, at 08:46, Jörg Bornemann via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:

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?

Makes sense to me. Talk pages that nobody monitors are worse than no talk pages.

If there are legitimate use cases for talk pages, whoever wants to keep them should use this opportunity to step up to moderate them consistently. Otherwise, disabling them removes a source of frustration for people trying to engage with the community.

Good catch on cleaning up that Main talk page, thanks!

//! Paul


Cheers,

Joerg

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