How to have wiki-related discussions ? Bidirectional preferred

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JacobDK seeks a way to use Discourse’s wiki feature not just as a single closed topic, but as a hub for multiple bidirectionally linked discussion threads — similar to Wikipedia’s Talk pages. He suggests three possible workarounds: (1) using the “Reply as new topic” feature to create bidirectional links; (2) creating many categories manually linked to wiki records (closed topics with wiki posts); or (3) making a category’s default topic a wiki, with subsequent topics in the same category. He acknowledges this functionality isn’t built into Discourse yet but hopes for community input or suggestions. codinghorror advises experimenting with the proposed approaches to determine which best fits the use case, weighing their pros and cons.

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I would like to use the wiki-feature of Discourse, but also have the possibility to use the wiki-record (a closed topic containing only the first post as a wiki) as a kind of category, where I can have, not just one discussion-thread, but multiple. These should be related bidirectional, so one somehow leads to the other both ways.

Ideally I would like a solution like wikipedias Talk-page, where I can read the wiki-record and then click on a Talk-tab, and there find the related threads for the wiki-record.

I suppose this is not in the todo-list of Discourse, although I think others would benefit from having a great discussion-platform to use, when discussing wiki-records. Otherwise you would have implemented it already.

So: Workarounds :smiley:

  1. Use the “Reply as new topic”-feature to have bidirectional links in the bottom of the wiki-record, and if I understand correctly, somewhere in the new topic also - bidirectional that is.

  2. Create one category for wiki-records only. Create a heck of a lot of categories, 200+ at least, and manually link them to wiki-records (again, here what I call wiki-records are just closed topics containing a wiki). Possibly use RSS to put in the wiki-record.

  3. Make a category - and make the category default topic, that describes the category, a wiki-record and the following topics rest in the same category.

I hope it makes sense. Any thoughts or suggestions for this use-case ?

Thanks for anything

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I think you will need to experiment with the approaches you outlined and get a feel for which works best and what the pros and cons are of each.