I think it's that we get drama which is big to us, but it rarely splashes outside the Foundation and the community to become common knowledge... and the dedicat

I think it's that we get drama which is big to us, but it rarely splashes outside the Foundation and the community to become common knowledge... and the dedicated community remains fairly insular. Maybe this will be the hidden drawback of the current work to improve talk pages -- all the wikidrama will become more visible to the world!