Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-876022-20150723092751

ProtectSite and AbuseFilter

This reminds me of Special:ProtectSite, which few individual wiki's have local access to. In the case of The RuneScape Wiki, anonymous edits are still largely part of the editing of articles. Now unlike many wikis we do not have article comments or blogs enabled which I would figure make spam more likely.

The game we create content for has the average age of player to be between 19-25 years old at 41%. Only 13% are between 13-16 years old and everyone else is older. Sure, in the past we might have had actual vandalism issues, but most of this has been resolved with tools like ProtectSite for the two or three times it was ever used and Special:AbuseFilter. Really, with just AF do we really need to disable anonymous editing?

Registering Users

I know that with what Cook Me Plox has been saying it's that within the RuneScape community, most find it easier to read than to edit. It doesn't matter how well any versions of the editor work. Many readers will not register, let alone edit, because they have been burned on other fansites where the information they provided eventually would be similar to their game account (same email, same password, etc.) and said sites would fall victim to hacking groups.

Speaking to players older than myself in the game finds it hard to get someone motivated to make an edit or add a file. It really is disheartening if you are asked to do x, y and z that y and z will be changed because it wasn't up to par with the wiki standards. This can be that an image uploaded was not taken with anti-alias on or it was far too small.

As long as this is never a forced change at any point in the future and up to the decision of leadership on an individual basis for a given wiki, then that will be fine. I just can't see the overall benefit when we have tools at our disposal to prevent spam and vulgarity with features like AbuseFilter.

I'd really dislike it if it came down to just registered editing. It doesn't matter how big your reader base is, the benefits of having a registered account does for them, or having 'gamification' in the mix. Being part of the community doesn't always have to entail a registered account either. 09:27, July 23, 2015 (UTC)