Complete Open-Editing of the Bulbapedia

[evkl]

Zhen and I have been throwing thoughts back and forth at one another about the opening of 'pedia to all who come along, with or without registration.

Does anyone have any objections to this? Any support statements?

 

[Misty]

Just remember that idiot who thought he was hot stuff by creating random, pointless pages. We should really wait until we're larger so we have more people around to reverse vandalism.

 

[Zeta]

Yeah, that's what that asshole wanted in the first place. I wouldn't give it to him, until we have a lot more members to confront wide-scale vandalism.

You don't take the locks off your house a week after someone tries to break in. That'd be silly.

 

[Fig]

Indeed.

 

[Cferra]

Yeah. Don't put in open edits like that. Besides, we don't need it. Memory Alpha and Wikipedia have passwords required and seem to be fine. So, we don't need to have open access. So, I agree with what people said about it.

It'll just allow for more troublemakers. The other wikis seem fine in having the set up like we have. Registration is like ours now. So, I vote no.

L_X

P.S. we should really have the registration be screened like it is now.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Whaa? Wikipedia allows anonymous editing. Memory Alpha too.

 

[Zeta]

Whaa? Wikipedia allows anonymous editing. Memory Alpha too.

The difference being they have thousands of users to counteract vandals. We most emphatically don't.

 

[evkl]

To the point, will we ever have thousands--even hundreds--of truly active and devoted users?

The community just isn't that large.

 

[Zeta]

Yes, that's my point. 5 or so regular users every three days wouldn't be enough to stop spammers and jerks. Especially not dedicated ones.

 

[Jshadias]

I don't see any need to allow anonymous editing; creating an account takes around 2 seconds while everyone having accounts is useful for numerous reasons.