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

[Volker Hilsheimer]

> On 22 Sep 2025, at 08:59, Paul Wicking via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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


Looks like there are no objections, so go ahead with disabling this. Perhaps there is a sensible way to point to forum.qt.io <http://forum.qt.io/> instead.

Cheers,
Volker