Minimum viable product. In this case, "hey we need a way for people to talk to each other", "sure, we should make a discussion tool, but to get it right now we

Minimum viable product. In this case, "hey we need a way for people to talk to each other", "sure, we should make a discussion tool, but to get it right now we could use a wiki page that users edit one after another to add their answers". The fact that it started as such is not an issue per se, but after so many years wikipedia should have replaced it with something better and easier.