User blog comment:MadCrayolaz/Chat/@comment-4682288-20120529121332/@comment-10385439-20120529134944

Exactly. It would be used if it was viewable at any point on the site. If you look at TWH's Shoutbox, which isn't even live chat, it's just status updates. Yet it's used much more than the Wiki's chat, due to the fact that it is viewable on the site itself.