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As someone who started a wiki... yea... people really don't want to make accounts. The second I started letting people just edit things without being logged in,
by scoofy 4y ago
As someone who started a wiki... yea... people really don't want to make accounts. The second I started letting people just edit things without being logged in, the wiki immediately became dramatically more useful to everyone. I was worried about vandalism, but it's really not an issue exactly because nobody actually cares about the site at all.
It's a golf wiki if anyone is curious: https://golfcourse.wiki https://golfcourse.wiki
- willchis 4y agoThis is cool! Just added my local course.
- scoofy 4y agoThanks! But I think the relevant info is: did you make an account? ha!
- solarkraft 4y agoI guess this illuminates why Wikipedia still allows anonymous edits. It's something I would never have considered precisely because of vandalism, but I suppose the urge to add information is low enough for most people that any distraction will lead them to not go through.
- nonameiguess 4y agoI've made two edits to Wikipedia ever. Once in college over 20 years ago in an article about Thomas Hobbes, and once a few months ago in an article about the Slayer album Reign in Blood. I quite appreciate that they did not try to make me create an account that I would use once every 20 years.
- scoofy 4y agoOn my site having an account unlocks a bunch of useful features. Mainly, a version control system. Anyone trying to vandalize will have a harder time doing it than a 1 click reset by a user. That’s how I ended up justifying it.