Thread:TotallyTinkerbell/@comment-25680254-20141113233543/@comment-25680254-20141114162707

Hi TotallyTinkerbell

Thanks for the extensive reply!

[side note: the post earlier in this thread from "A Wikia contributor" was also from me. I'd got logged out of the wiki somehow and hadn't noticed until after I posed my reply]

I do understand the pressures you are under, and I am very sorry that you had a death in your famlily. My condonlences! In these circumstances it is even more impressive that you took the time to reply in such lenght.

I take your point of resticting access to prevent malicous vandalism of pages. I also do agree that making people register is a good deterrent, and, as you say, such is fairly common practice.

However the addidional requirement of 10 edits is somewhat arbirary, less common and certainly not easily deduced. I certainly had no idea why, once I had created my account, I was still not able to make a simple edit.

Please don't misunderstand me, I do appreciate the time and effort that you and other admins of this site are putting in. All I'm trying to tell you is what I, as a newbie to this particular wiki, found the 'user experience' to be.

My experience was that I found info on this wiki I couldn't find elsewhere, but I spotted a small mistake (guest actor's name misspelled) and I wanted to help out by fixing it. I took quite a long time, registering, reading guide pages etc and scouring chat pages to try and figure out how I could get that small correction made (BTW thanks for doing it on my behalf). I thing 99% of readers of this wiki would just have given up.

That's one reason I still think that locked pages need some form of note, banner or link to a expanantory page at the top that explains why that page cannot be edited.

New episode pages are not only the pages that are going to be the most vunleralbe to malicious edits, at the same time they are also the most likely entry point for new readers. That's certainly why I came to your site and to that particular page. And if you want to make readers into contributers you need to make sure they can easily understand what they can edit and what not. And when not, why that is.

Look, all I'm saying, you're doing a hard job for the love of the show and that's great. Please just make sure that when you and the other admins make decision, don't forget about the "newbie perspective", i.e. how is the site perceived by the first time or occasional user. Because they are the people that may just turn into great contributers and, who knows, even into admins, which will lighten your load.

Thank you again for all your hard work!!