As stated many times throughout the book, a wiki is used best when it is a tool that the community can use. In order for the community to collaborate and use the wiki effectively, we need to make sure that as the sysop, we do our job and allow communication between the users. In this section, we will look at a few tools that MediaWiki has in place to help facilitate communication among the wiki' s users. We will also see how extensions can help make our job as sysops easier, while making the end user's experience richer as well.
The first method of communication among the wiki users should be the talk pages. There are two types of talk pages: standard talk pages are used to discuss an article, and user talk pages are used to communicate with other users or leave them messages. Every page has an associated talk page, except pages in the Special namespace. If there is no discussion for a page, the link to its talk page will be red. You can still use this feature...