Edited 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
"I see, thanks Andrew. How does it work for people under 1,000 pts then? Who checks their edits before they go live, is it people who are over 5,000 who check over their edits?"We have a dedicated team of Wiki Moderators who look over and either Approve or Deny any and all submissions sent by users under the 1000 point mark. These fine upstanding Moderators slave away at the queue and make sure all edits proposed are dealt with.
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
"In theory, someone with 1000+ points could post stuff, delete, repost, lather, rinse, repeat, but they would get found out sooner or later. Someone would notice they have insane amounts of points for doing hardly any work. Plus, you have to get to 1000 points before you can do that. Most people who get to 1000 points are serious about editing the wiki, and wouldn't abuse the system like that."True. I personally think the live edit point limit should be raised even a little higher though. I mean...someone could go on a tantrum and start erasing entire pages, right? Lol maybe I'm just thinking way too into this. Alright, thanks for answering all my questions so fast everyone. That's all.
Edited 6 months, 3 weeks ago
"MattyFTM said:And that is why you back up your wiki pages (which I had to learn the hard way)."In theory, someone with 1000+ points could post stuff, delete, repost, lather, rinse, repeat, but they would get found out sooner or later. Someone would notice they have insane amounts of points for doing hardly any work. Plus, you have to get to 1000 points before you can do that. Most people who get to 1000 points are serious about editing the wiki, and wouldn't abuse the system like that."True. I personally think the live edit point limit should be raised even a little higher though. I mean...someone could go on a tantrum and start erasing entire pages, right? Lol maybe I'm just thinking way too into this. Alright, thanks for answering all my questions so fast everyone. That's all."
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
"If someone was to go on a page deleting rampage, the staffers have backups for everything. It can all be restored."That's good to know. I was planning on going through all my submissions and making back-ups for them just incase, but I guess it's not necessary.
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
"MattyFTM said:I suggest you do it anyway. There is always the odd chance we lose something on the server side and cannot restore it. No matter what happens I urge everyone to backup their edits, especially if they are lengthy and detailed."If someone was to go on a page deleting rampage, the staffers have backups for everything. It can all be restored."That's good to know. I was planning on going through all my submissions and making back-ups for them just incase, but I guess it's not necessary."
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
"Disgaeamad said:I have image documentation of the Chrono Trigger page as well as a document. Just so I can know where everything is."MattyFTM said:I suggest you do it anyway. There is always the odd chance we lose something on the server side and cannot restore it. No matter what happens I urge everyone to backup their edits, especially if they are lengthy and detailed.""If someone was to go on a page deleting rampage, the staffers have backups for everything. It can all be restored."That's good to know. I was planning on going through all my submissions and making back-ups for them just incase, but I guess it's not necessary."
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
" Points are distributed in the exact same way no matter how many you have. It has to do with how much gets added to the article, not how much is changed. So if the size is the same or less than it was before, you'll only get a single point.That is VERY unfortunate. There is no compensation or reward for being brief and concise. And, presumably, if you took a long-winded and poorly written article and cleaned the hell out of it and managed to reduce it by half and still convey all of the same important content, you would get one point. Even though the work you did (proof reading and editing) is often far more difficult than initially just spewing endless paragraphs onto the wiki.
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
" @LordAndrew said:I agree, I hate it when I fix up a poorly written wiki so it doesn't seem like a 4 year old made it, and I get 1 point. It's lame" Points are distributed in the exact same way no matter how many you have. It has to do with how much gets added to the article, not how much is changed. So if the size is the same or less than it was before, you'll only get a single point.That is VERY unfortunate. There is no compensation or reward for being brief and concise. And, presumably, if you took a long-winded and poorly written article and cleaned the hell out of it and managed to reduce it by half and still convey all of the same important content, you would get one point. Even though the work you did (proof reading and editing) is often far more difficult than initially just spewing endless paragraphs onto the wiki. "
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
" @Branthog said:There should be an option that you can tag an article with when you submit it that says, essentially, "I have revised/cleaned-up/whatever this article" and that would send it to a live moderator who could review the content and assign points appropriately. As a fan of quality over content, I'd gladly take on the task of helping with that if such a feature were implemented. The problem is that this sort of thing requires that awards be provided on a subjective basis by the moderator rather than just an algorithm saying "was 200 is 400, you get 200 points!". Meh." @LordAndrew said:I agree, I hate it when I fix up a poorly written wiki so it doesn't seem like a 4 year old made it, and I get 1 point. It's lame "" Points are distributed in the exact same way no matter how many you have. It has to do with how much gets added to the article, not how much is changed. So if the size is the same or less than it was before, you'll only get a single point.That is VERY unfortunate. There is no compensation or reward for being brief and concise. And, presumably, if you took a long-winded and poorly written article and cleaned the hell out of it and managed to reduce it by half and still convey all of the same important content, you would get one point. Even though the work you did (proof reading and editing) is often far more difficult than initially just spewing endless paragraphs onto the wiki. "
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Posted 4 days, 11 hours ago
" Once at 1000 points, do new page additions still need to be moderated? I checked the FAQs and couldn't find anything on this, but I wasn't sure, since I submitted a new concept idea and it still said it needed to be approved (and I'm over 1000 points), but a regular edit to one of the pages did not go through this process. "You need 5000 points to add new pages without moderation
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