Forum:Wiki Lockdown



First, this is a very unique situation and that is why the voting period only lasts until Wednesday.

Ok I know we said we weren't going to do this, but the fact is that we had an idea about what would happen, and as I'm sure everyone has had this experience, reality comes up and turns the table over. We so underestimated the impact that it was comparing Luna to Sol.

The bottom line here is that Commdor and myself, the only two active admins here, are completely, 1000%, overwhelmed with the amount of new content that is flowing in. I get regular emails about how many visitors we get per day, previously the high was near the 500,000 mark, since the release of ME3, that number has never dropped below 1,000,000. We just can't keep up and I'm sure others are feeling overwhelmed. We've been having multiple issues of vandalism slipping through for hours and not being caught, bad edits being made, MoS violations, and a huge number of other issues that are about as long as I’m tall in 8 point font. We have only a few senior editors around, and other regular users are nowhere to be seen. This isn't like a DLC pack where it will be overwhelming for a few days, then calm down. Something like this, we are talking months until we have everything documented.

The bottom line here is that both of us cannot keep up this pace for much longer. Both of us are tired, and Commdor has exams this week that he needs to worry about. We just can't keep up anymore. Both of us are near a breaking point in terms of what we can handle, just look at Commdor's talk page and I'm about the same way.

So what this is. This will institute a lockdown so that auto-confirmed users, meaning users who have their email registered with Wikia, will be able to edit, and everyone else can't. This will help with the flow of information, while we manage to process all of it. This will last until April 30th. The reason for the time is that we need time to set standards back in, clean up articles, and hammer things out.

To anyone voting, please please please understand that this decision is not being made lightly, but, it is one that has to be made quickly, and one that is needed as reality again, has a way of turning the table on you. We aren't trying to punish anyone, we just can't keep up anymore. Lancer1289 22:56, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

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 * 1) Not an easy decision, but one that must be made. Lancer1289 22:56, March 12, 2012 (UTC)