Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26272757-20171007152523/@comment-26272757-20171008102006

I'd like to examine the opinions in this tea party a little further.

@FS Yes, because I'm a bit done with the anons. I see what you're saying. We can check all edits and mostly roll them back, but we can also choose to not do that and then we get less work. It's not that it annoys me very much, but it feels a bit useless to me. Again, I don't really mind it, but it isn't very goal oriented, but very devious. Haha ok. On which day I should have made this forum then? I think nobody had something to add to my story. Everyone's reason for supporting is the same: the constant stream of vandalism. With that argument about having a small community I strongly agree. I wasn't very strongly supporting this anyway, but now I'm opposing it because of that argument. I would never have thought that I would stand against anonymous contributors, but their edits make me a bit desperate sometimes. Still, for this community to welcome new users, it's vital that anonymous contributors get a chance on the Wiki. It's still good to discuss this though. I also made this forum because I knew that most people would be supporting this proposal, and it's good to have discussions about the Wiki's future, and to hear what everyone thinks. I would say we're not going to change or anonymous user policy. Well, I would test it out if there was an option to block anons from editing, but enable them to comment, but sadly there is no such thing. Now, let's see what SS says.

@SS It's the truth. For sure more than 80% of anonymous editing has to be reverted. You probably don't see this because you're not very active, and when an edit is rollacked, you don't see it in the Wiki Activity overview. True, when we disable anonymous editing, we are sure the users that are now active will have a bit less work, so there will be less edits, and even more important, the amount of users will stay the same or even become less! Again, I did not make this forum for my irritations, but to make a snapshot of everyone's opinions regarding this matter.

@Andreskiremy Too long. I have witnessed that it doesn't work good. It takes months or even longer before they can edit those semi-protected pages. And then I'm talking about users without special rights, or even low rights.

@JRFB Do you want a Wiki is dead as the Antartican desert? This Wiki should be a user-friendly place where everyone is welcome. (Yes, I turned 180 degrees now, it's hypocritical, but I want the best for our Wiki.) Spam can be reverted, inactivity makes a Wiki rather useless. Only really good users would create an account, but the okay users (users who only visit our Wiki once and do three good edits and never return again) don't, and we also need them. On Community Central I have years ago done a proposal for this: disabling anonymous editing, and enabling anonymous commenting. It didn't make it, sadly, but I think it would be used by a lot of Wikis. A Wiki is a place where people with similar interests share them, no one should be excluded. If we exclude everyone else, the Wiki is only here for the users that hold a rank and for no one else.

Thank you for your opinion everyone, this was what I wanted.