Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24504790-20140204143225/@comment-366087-20140205234522

Wikia is not some new startup, still feeling its way along. If anyone thinks this request has not ever before been made, received, reviewed, and adjudicated by Staff is not thinking it through.

On any wiki but with the smallest of contributors, there are *hundreds* to *thousands* of edits in a day. Who wants to ride any of those queues?

Then there is the matter of duplicated edits. Take an article with 1 small minor edit which needs to be made. So User1 makes the change. It goes into a queue to be approved. Which has to wait for an admin or mod to come along to review it… and remember these are volunteers, not employees with dedicated time at the job… *however in the meantime*, User2 sees and makes the same correction. As does User2, User4, and on through who knows how many users who all want to make that one same correction and have to *wait*. A wait they'd not have to make had User1's edit just gone live when they made it.

Thing is: who is going to want to wade through all those pending edits for the same correction?

Go to a high-trafficked wiki, like say Disney Wiki, and just *watch* how many and how fast edits are made there in just 15 minutes. And that's where edits go immediately live. Imagine how many duplicate edits would be choking the queues on the same articles with the same/similar changes.

[shakes head] No sirree, not I. I currently administrate 17 wikis. Most of which I'm the only active admin. If I had to spend all my time combing through hours worth of approval queues, I'd not just go postal, but *nuclear postal*. And that's not even considering having to field messages of "when will my edit go through" and "why did UserX get the credit for my edit??"