Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-1038387-20150722220501

Cook Me Plox wrote: Tupka217 wrote: Cook Me Plox wrote: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

Worth a read for a different perspective on anonymous editing.

Is that from 2006? Is that still relevant? It's a very well-known essay written by an important person in the history of wikis (and open source software in general). It's as applicable as it's ever been -- try actually reading it.

No need for that tone - I was not dismissing it, merely commenting on the relevance. These are figures for Wikipedia, from 2006. Not 2015 Wikia. The Internet is just not the same.

Since 2006, social media have grown. A lot. And Wikia has incorporated many things from social media. Sites like that are entirely account-based; as such, in those 9 years, the attitude towards registering an account on websites in general would be different. People have accounts on every social media site... Wikia is just one more.

Citing the article in itself (or the writer's here irrelevant credentials) doesn't mean much. Like I said, Wikipedia, 2006. If you want it to make a point, you're going to have to replicate his experiment for Wikia, 2015.