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[[:Category:Wikia Staff|Wikia staff]] and helpers have [[sysop]] powers throughout <u>all</u> Wikia wikis, as well as several types of automated detection and blocking tools to help deal with [[vandal]]s and [[spam]] on individual wikis. This can be helpful for [[:Category:Wikis with a strong viewpoint|controversial]] wikis like [[Liberapedia]] which tends to attract vandals. | [[:Category:Wikia Staff|Wikia staff]] and helpers have [[sysop]] powers throughout <u>all</u> Wikia wikis, as well as several types of automated detection and blocking tools to help deal with [[vandal]]s and [[spam]] on individual wikis. This can be helpful for [[:Category:Wikis with a strong viewpoint|controversial]] wikis like [[Liberapedia]] which tends to attract vandals. | ||
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From its creation in 2004, all wiki sites hosted on Wikia had unrestricted editing privileges, known as '[[:Category:OpenEdit|open edit]]'. This meant, that whilst Wikia welcomed [[user]]s to register for an account and create their own [[username]], anonymous folks were equally welcome and able to edit without the need to create an account and / or log-in. As was the norm throughout the developing [[wikisphere]], individuals from this latter group became known as an [[IP editor]], due to them being identified by their [[IP address]] from the [[edit history]] of any wiki page they had edited. This 'open edit' ethos continued as a fundamental basis until July 2013; when it was deemed that 'open edit' was not compliant with the "Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998", commonly known as [http://COPPA.org COPPA], which became effective 21 April 2000, and is overseen by the [https://www.FTC.gov Federal Trade Commission] (FTC). As a result, in order to comply with COPPA, all new Wikia wikis were required to implement all users to register for an account before being able to edit, known as '[[:Category:LoginToEdit|log-in to edit]]'. Those existing Wikia sites created before July 2013 are also required to convert to 'log-in to edit', thus effectively ending one of the founding wiki fundamentals of being 'open to all'. | |||
Registered Wikia users with new 'talk' messages on <u>any</u> Wikia wiki will get a [[talk page]] notification about that message on ''any other'' Wikia wiki where they have a tab or window open. If a user has different [[username]]s for different Wikia wiki sites, then logging into a different account for one can change the account for all. | |||
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