Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-15278555-20161210205835

After doing massive editing on Wikia for the last several years and accruing a couple million edits I have become deeply frustrated and disappointed with the lack of community support. I request that the primary wiki I edit, Military Wikia located here: http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page will need some support by others that are able to support.

It's a good project and has a lot of potential but does have about 200, 000 articles and get a lot of traffic so it's a daily target for vandals. I have reduced my editing there over the last few weeks and will be continuing to spend less time there in the future.

The last straw for me was learning that editors in good standing on Wikia don't have any right to access the Wikia official IRC and discord channels (although they are "unofficial, they are defacto official) run by RansomTime. I have asked him to unblock me and he has refused and I have asked here at community central about this and have been told that Wikia isn't interested in supporting its community to resolve this disagreement. So I find myself deeply disappointed in Wikia and its community and I don't feel like participating here actively anymore if this is how it's community is treated.

When people on the WMF sites are friends with the Wikia mods and ask them to block Wikia users in good standing, and those mods do it, then there is a major problem in this community. As such, since I cannot access the IRC or discord channels without evading an unwarranted ban from them, and since there is nothing preventing mods and admins on the WIkia sites from helping friends bully and harass its community in the future, I am forced to reduce my editing on Wikia.

So please take some time and check in on the Military wiki from time too time or even better, actively edit and improve it. 