Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-27007907-20160228163042

The community surrounding the subject of my wiki is a passionate one, and definitely excited about the idea of having a wiki. However, I'm having the damnest time trying to get any of them to contribute anything. As best as I can figure, they're mostly too intimidated by the prospect of editing a wiki and doing something wrong, causing something to get deleted or instead having their own work outright removed by an over-zealous editor (like the ones you might see at wikipedia or some of the most popular wikias). I'm doing my best to assure them that it's no problem, I can make their contributions fit the wiki format easily, and I'm not in the practice of removing content if I can avoid it. There's only so much encouragement I can give without sounding desperate, though.

Does anyone have any experience dealing with a community that's too intimidated by wikis to contribute? 