so in the rehash, what was the deciding reason that it was a bad idea to make the wiki more visible? what detrimental effects were there expected by making info like the wiki more easy to find? I can understand that there is some reasoning on why they were done that way before, but 'Talk' didn't fit into that reasoning, but it was added because it was useful to do so.

Forums can get link rot very quickly, and searching through thousands of pages to find the latest info can get tiresome so people just get lazy and start new threads. In the wiki there should be only one place for the info ( and under the covers, history and old versions as info changes), and we can take advantage of linking several things together in an easy to find (and read) format.

Lots of people may be using the forums and threads to hold info because they're not aware of an alternative. Things like lists, FAQs, etc I think would be best handled if they were not in a threaded format, often peppered with additional discussion posts that do not provide useful info.

Thoughts?