Board Thread:Wiki Main Forum/@comment-26339491-20160317231047

Did you know that Wikia offers apps for many of our most popular communities? They're a more convenient way of reading your articles on mobile. Battlefield Wiki now has a community app, too! You can download it at the Apple App Store for iPhone and at the Google Play Store for Android.

Recently, we've added our new feature "Discussions" to many of our apps that lets mobile viewers discuss the game directly in the app as well! We've been amazed by how many users have given Discussions a try - many new users have even signed up for an account just so they can participate in Discussions in their respective apps. We're sure your community will see a surge in new sign-ups through the app as well as users start downloading it.

Some of these new community members might even go beyond Discussions, add content to your articles, and stick around as valuable editors.

You can use Discussions on the web as well: Battlefield Discussions on the web. This web version isn’t "discoverable" right now, meaning it isn't linked anywhere on your wikia. You can only find it through a URL shared from the app, or by following the link here. You can participate in Discussions with or without using the app. Since the app was just launched, there aren't any conversations in Discussions yet (as of this writing), but we're sure that will change soon.

If you like what you see, why not add a link to the Discussions web version to your community's navigation? Other communities that have had an app with Discussions for a bit longer have already done this, for example Brave Frontier and Battlefront.

Moderation features: Since Discussions first started in other apps, we've added features to Discussions that allow your mods and admins to delete/restore posts, in the app as well as on the desktop version. You can also view all posts by a user, and admins can delete all posts by a user (very useful, of course, if you're dealing with a spammer).

All users can report a post as inappropriate, so moderators don't have to read through everything to discover the rare bad post. This feature is pretty exciting, because it's something we currently don't even have on Wikia's regular forums! We're also planning to add a "close discussion" option for mods, and there's more to come after that.

Your Battlefield mods can now moderate Discussions much like they already moderate conversations on the wikia itself. Once you're seeing the numbers of Discussions users rise, I encourage you to think about ways to promote wiki editing to them. For example, you can post a link to a page for a current project every now and then, or to a page that welcomes new editors with tips on where to start editing. You can also foster high-quality conversations by posting questions and prompts, running polls/surveys, ask users to share their personal in-game tips and strategies, etc. You can read more about how Discussions works on the help page. Admins and Discussions Moderators automatically have all of the moderation options. As you start to get participation from app users, keep an eye out for good moderator candidates. I can help you contact them as well (sometimes reaching out can be tough since they may not get talk notifications).

Let us know what you think! We're still working on adding more features to make Discussions more fun and convenient to use (such as topic categorization, search, link previews, etc.) For that, we can really use your opinion. How do you like Discussions? What's better than the current desktop forum, what's worse? What are you missing? Please share your thoughts here, and if you have questions, I'm happy to answer them! 