Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-24014422-20160917145702/@comment-24014422-20160922130027

Ultrasonic9000 wrote:

Luma.dash wrote: Just to let you know, the use of the templates will be likely eliminated from the Discussion feature that Wikia Staff are working on when the idea is finished and approved, since the Discussion feature is not operated by Mediawiki, so templates are likely to not work afterward (Support, Oppose, and Neutral templates) for this case.

However, I've contacted a Wikia Staff about this possibility and he said: "I can't say for sure that we'll be supporting wikitext templates in Discussions in the future. Since Discussions is not built on MediaWiki, support for rendering templates does not come "for free". As you may have seen, we don't have any markup or formatting in Discussions yet, so there is still much work to be done.

However, I can confirm that we'll be building poll/voting capabilities for Discussions. And we are very clear that this type of interaction is not just for topic polls (e.g. "Which Sonic game is the best?") but also for admin elections and similar things. The flow of -- cast your vote (support/neutral/against) and write out your opinion if you want -- is very much one that we're considering as we look toward building that. So it's very possible that in the future, Discussions may meet this need and you won't even have to use templates."

Thereby, the templates option for voting I offered may just work for the coming months of 2016, but hopefully the feature Wikia Staff are implementing will replace at that time. I am afraid I do not understand. Does it mean that the Wiki staff is creating a voting system we can use for ourselves?

Yes. Once the discussion feature replaces the "forums", there will be the possibility to make votes using an existing feature (replacing the Support, Oppose, and Neutral templates with an existing way built inside the discussion feature which is similar).