Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-216.161.90.57-20150106174343/@comment-303594-20150106181241

Hey and welcome to Wikia!

The simple answer is, a wiki is a collection of pages that people can edit. There's an edit button at the top of every page, and you can create new articles by following a link to a page that doesn't exist.

Spammers, trolls, werewolves etc aren't normally a major problem. As a wiki grows one or two might appear, but the admins on the wiki (on Wikia, you're an admin if you create a wiki, and the creators can give admin rights to whoever they want) can block people who misbehave. Each wiki has a page called special:RecentChanges where you can look at what's changed. If you don't like the edit, you (or anyone else) can undo it. Admins can also delete entire pages - so in the unlikely event if someone makes an article about bombs, you can delete it. Weather people do depends on the sort of people you attract to the wiki, so if you say "no bombs" people are likely going to just stick to that. There are a few tools that can ban certain text from appearing completely, but it's not something I'd recommend starting out with unless there's a pattern of problems.

On searching, this is probably what wikis are the worst at, you can create article redirects to help you out though, so if you create a good structure (each article has a name that makes sense) - you can add a bunch of redirects to get what you need.