User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Sneak Peek at the New Look - Community Activity/@comment-13301-20100829100655/@comment-1157995-20100829102332

Exactly. Ever one of the editors here had a learing curve when we first started out. Sarah says "but remember when you were brand new and didn’t have the deep knowledge of wikis that you do now. Wasn’t it kind of confusing"

But you see, that phase is very important. The users get to know how a wikia works, that credit for the work is not as impotant as the content given. We all went through that phase, and once we got the hang of it, we became regular editors.

If you think about Wikia's, you have to think of the hard work put in behind the scenes, by admins and users, to make their wikia successful. They customize the skin, templates, create a layout for articles, add content to the best of their abilities to give readers the best possible information that can be provided. Do we get paid? No. Do we get rewarded? No. Do we want any of this? No.

But this is really throwing mud in our faces by ruining our hard work. The wikia's we worked so hard to develop, and now, for the sake of new editors, just casting our work aside, as if it didn't matter.

The new users will get the hang of it. Hell, I dont know where you found those testers, but for christ's sake, cant they notice the words in massive letters at the top of the page which says "Edit this page"'? U'd have to be pretty stupid..no..stupid isn't the word..Retarded not to realize that you can add content too, after seeing that.

The image attribution thing. For the reborn wikia nearly all images used were uploaded by me. So, do i want my name tag of 500+ images on pages in my wikia? No ofcorse not, i hate the very thought.

Another thing to note is, that there are quite a lot of preteens in wikia lately. My wikia, there are maybe, 7 or 8 preteens. They might be a little childish in their comments, but they do know how to edit a page, and if 12 year olds can figure it out, you tell me, what does that make the people you asked the questions from?

Take our opinions into account. We have done extremely hard work for our wikia's, and most of us, are proud of our achievements. Dont simply cast our opinions aside, and just say "we know whats best", cause the fact is, you dont. Right now, your pandering to new users and forgetting about the ppl who took wikia as a whole, this far