Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3026053-20130621001540/@comment-4051652-20130622012108

Isabella and Lego Liker wrote:

Utter solitude wrote:

Darkpool158 wrote: Semant just said they will be explaining more of this later this/next week. I know what Semantic said. However, I doubt they're going to give us all the criteria. And if they do, why not tell us now?

I'm all for blocking IPs from editing. I still find it very disconcerting that staff doesn't want to fully disclose what we're being judged on. Given how touchy-fealy this is, it's likely they WILL give all info.

Nope. Not really...

Semanticdrifter wrote: So two points before I head out for the weekend:

1. I'm not trying to hide the football when it comes to the criteria. I am not going to share the exact step-by-step review process we used, but I have listed the types of things that went in to the analysis. To explain further: In determining whether to place it in this category, we asked if the wiki would attract a substantial number of children under 13, and thus may be considered to be a “Web site or online service directed to children” under the COPPA rule. This is true even if they aren't the primary audience of the wiki. To answer that question, we looked at everything from the nature of the wiki pages, the subject matter (including medium, ratings, genre, storyline, source, likely audience, intended audience, actual audience, etc.).

It wasn't as simple as "it's a cartoon" or "it's on nicktoons", although both affected the outcome.

2. We did look at several alternatives, both technical and policy oriented. At the end of the day, this option presented the best way for Wikia to comply with the law.