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# There should be a way to have **central cross-project and cross-language discussions about topics**. This is usually OK, because discussions about articles mostly happen between people who speak the same language and are accustomed to editing the same project, but there are many cases in which having cross-project discussions would be very beneficial. Even without talking about different languages, it may often be useful to coordinate some discussions about Charles Dickens in Wikipedia and Wikisource, or some discussions about Yosemite in Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. Currently this can only be done on separate talk pages with frequent manual use of pinging other editors using Echo's mentioning mechanism, because neither talk pages nor watchlists can currently work across projects. Having central talk pages would also help facilitate scenario 2 in this list, leaving feedback about the source page of a translated article. There are no interlanguage links on talk pages, and there is no good reason for that. The closest thing that we currently have to a global talk page about a topic is the talk page of the topic's Wikidata item, but as far as I know it is not used in such a way, and even if it would be used for this, it would require frequent use of pinging. Of course, there's also the problem of having one discussion in different languages. {T98728} may be somewhat helpful here, but it will not be a perfect solution because machine translation is always faulty and it's not available for all languages. Nevertheless, it's a thing to consider....
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