Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-34391750-20160714233312/@comment-32172449-20160716142207

Acebatonfan wrote: ParisAndStuff wrote: Take a look at this wiki community blog post by a wikia staff: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Semanticdrifter/Updates_to_COPPAIt shows that you have to be over 13 to edit on wikis of wikia. So cmon, we could also get the wiki freaking taken down. Take all this into consideration, please. The blog post you linked to referenced an update to COPAA that further extended its applications to anonymous editing. Wikia decided to comply with this update by changing the requirements for wikias to have anonymous editing enabled; all wikias whose audience is minors (defined as children under the age of 13 by COPAA) had anonymous editing disabled. Since the ROBLOX Wikia is geared to minors, Wikia therefore removed the anonymous editing feature on the wiki (but if you were to go to a wiki whose audience is more mature, such as Wookiepedia, anoynmous editing would be enabled).

If an editor is found to be under the age of 13, their account is blocked (because they violated a clause within the Terms of Service that states that by using Wikia the editor affirms that they are over the age of 13). The wikia isn't necessarily shut down because of that minor.

Remember that writing abilities and relative maturity does not correlate with age. There's 11 year olds who are able to write professionally (and if they were to be on wikia you would never know they're a minor), while there's legal adults who can barely write like a 9 year old (my younger sister is in her teens, and due to some developmental disabilities she writes like a 4-5 year old). Does Wikipedia comply with COPPA?