Adding a related articles module within Discussion posts
RespondidaI received a message from our Community Manager that Fandom are planning to add a module showing related Discussions posts at the bottom of articles. I would like to suggest a complementary feature adding a module with links to articles within Discussion posts, using the tags for the post in the same way.
I made a very rough mockup of what this could look like using the wiki's theme colours:

There are a number of benefits I feel this would have:
- it would help surface wiki article content to Discussion users, who are not always familiar or even aware of the article side of the wiki. This often creates a separation between the "wiki side" and the "Discussions side", and I feel this feature would help reduce that
- it would help to boost pageviews on articles
- it provides extra and useful information to users within Discussion conversations
- it would make wikis that are hesitant about the related posts module being added on the article feel there is a mutual benefit going in both ways
This last point is the one where I feel it can have the biggest benefit to the community. Wikis are becoming more and more resistant to the changes Fandom is implementing, as they feel Fandom are encroaching on the article space with things that don't have a clear benefit to the wiki (things like QAs, suggested pages etc.). I believe implementing these features together would improve the both user and wiki experience, and also help soften that resistance.
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Thank you for this detailed feedback, we've documented it internally.
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