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On 21 February 2019, the WMF informed various Wikimedia projects of the 2019 talk pages consultation.
The Talk pages consultation is a global consultation planned from February to June 2019, to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to define better tools for wiki communication. The consultation will seek input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible – on multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives – to come up with a product direction for a set of communication features that a product team will be able to work on in the coming fiscal year.
An explicit objective of the consultation is to change communication on Wikimedia projects in some way, because the present wikitext communication system effectively forms a cultural barrier for new contributors, in spite of its flexibility and transparency. In enumerating various possible outcomes and solutions, the consultation page notes: "For this process to work, we need to be open to all kinds of directions."
In this stage of the consultation, the WMF suggests asking community members five questions. There are therefore five subsections for each of those questions (under § Suggested questions). It may also be appropriate for other issues to be considered on this page, in separate subsections (under § Other topics). Jc86035 (talk) 14:28, 23 February 2019 (UTC)