> On 22 Sep 2025, at 08:59, Paul Wicking via Development > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 22 Sep 2025, at 08:46, Jörg Bornemann via Development >> <[email protected]> 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 -- Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
