Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-5343891-20121223034156/@comment-3335785-20130115112058

Fandyllic wrote: I think it is over-reaching to say anons as a whole make largely positive edits. It might be more fair to say the are not making strongly negative edits as a whole. On wikis with anonymous editing, admins have way more work to do fixing anon edits. Part of the problem is it is difficult to communicate with anonymous editors and point out their mistakes.

I've seen vandalism reverted and good quality new pages being made by anonymous editors. The beauty of a wiki is that if you see something wrong you can just fix it.

With fixing anonymous edits, and disregarding vandalism in this case, a fair few of the problems I've seen come from RTE errors. I can but hope Wikimedia's WYSIWYG editor is a viable option for Wikia as Wikia's version seems to introduce bugs every other update.

And of course, I'm going to have to agree that communication is a big issue, especially when there's a bug (or at least was a bug) where anons don't get new message notifications. Sometimes they only realise when they're blocked, but sometimes the entire situation could have been avoided if they received the notifications.