Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-27028390-20141028104814/@comment-3225604-20141028124152

I'm sorry but your point is invalid. When you mention edits, it doesn't always relate to the popularity of the wiki. In other words, edits don't tell the real situation but views.

Firstly, edits may decrease due to the improvement of the wiki. That means, the wiki may be difficult to make amendments. This is proves by looking at the level pages. It is almost perfect by the hardwork of our users and errors are quite minimal.

Secondly, edits may decrease because a new episode is not released. New episode means new pages and more edits to give information to the newly created levels, especially in a newly released reality episode. The data is taken just before a new reality level would release. Of course the edits would stay low.

Thirdly, the disabling of anon editing do change the edit count. At least anon users would comment on pages. Anon users do occupy a large proportion in this wiki, yet the disabling of anon users would surely impact the edit count and scare some users away. I'm not supporting to reinstate anon editing, but anom users do edit a lot in this week.

Fourthly, don't forget vandalism persist in summer and September and October. The edit count is surely high. This gives an illusion that the wiki is popular om these months but sadly no. The WAM ranking remains to be at 90 and 80 something, which is close to today's ranking.

Fifthly, Candy Crush Soda Saga is far less famous than Candy Crush Saga. None of my peers in Hong Kong is playing this game. Although I do not have statistical evidence to support this stance, not much activity occurs around Candy Crush Soda Saga Wiki. Even the WAM score is lower than Ccs fan fiction wiki.

You may argue that the views decrease since the release of the new game. However, this figure is once achieved in some days, and yet there's no significant decrease in the number of views. By also looking at the figure, views went back to sixty thousand, which is normal.

In conclusion, edit count should not be used to tell the popularity of the wiki, hence it sounds ridiculous to diagnoize the drop is due to the release of Candy Crush Soda Saga.