Forum:Making people sign up before they use my wiki, is it possible if so how?

Title says it all, any takers?


 * This is technically possible, but it is strongly discouraged and should only be done in an extreme case. Special:Contact is the best way to get information from and make requests to staff. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  05:49, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I am just starting with wikis however I fear my projects could be vandalised easily if some feature like this isn't enabled. Anything I can do?


 * You'll find that you won't need to do anything except revert anything that comes up, and block users if necessary. Very few wikis get to the stage where vandalism is a real, detrimental problem. One could say that Wikipedia is vandalised frequently, yet they don't find the need to start protecting the whole site - because they have enough users and admins to deal with the problem. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  05:56, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your response. I sincerely hope so. I guess I'll learn about blocking and reverting users with time.


 * I don't see the reason to ask people to sign up when you yourself do not have an account... Anyway, there is no need to be afraid, you create an account and start-up a new Wikia wiki, at first there wont be many people visiting at all.  As your wiki articles get beyond certain number (I'd say 25 or so) you will see that there will be people visiting every now and them.  Most of them will want to fix spelling, clarify something you may have missed; or basically they would type a couple of lines in talk pages.  I only had 2 people come to my wiki (the one I made in June 2009) for the sole purpose to vandalize.  But that was only one of my wikis (I have 5).  However in the Q&A sites (I happen to help a lot in those) happens all the time nothing anyone can do to stop it.  You learn to clear it, it takes about 3 seconds to do when you get the hang of it; a couple of clicks and your page can go back to the way you had it before the vandal attacked.  No need to be afraid, at first I thought I'd see vandalism a lot more than what I had to deal with it so far.  --Liliana (my talk). 08:41, March 25, 2010 (UTC)