Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1687995-20131201180358/@comment-4812386-20131203045228

Anyone should be able to edit a wiki immediately without having to do anything; of course, some pages may be protected, and anonymous edits may be disallowed as they are on this wiki (though that's for legal reasons).

I think the best course of action would be to ask Wikia to enable the AbuseFilter extension (which they offer on request and enables selected users to create filters that can do a bunch of useful things) and, if possible, the FlaggedRevs extension (which they do not offer on request, but would allow us to set up content control on the wiki while still allowing anyone to edit any page (except protected ones, of course)). I am not sure how likely it is that they'd accept, but I am aware that they offer the recent changes patrol feature, which is similar. Getting that, along with a specific user right to enable us to select users who can use it (perhaps allowing all users would be best), would be better than nothing, although FlaggedRevs would give us more control, especially by allowing us to control stable versions of pages. It'd allow us to unprotect a lot of pages that are currently protected, thus opening the wiki more, while at the same time increasing the quality.