User blog comment:Mjb24v/Dealing with challenges/@comment-1687225-20121101134057

'''What sort of problems or difficulties have you encountered in contributing to/administering the Dark Souls wiki? '''

My biggest problem is the difficulty in finding new, dedicated editors. Most people who come here make a couple of edits, some promises (usually more promises than edits), then promptly disappear, never to return. This results in most of the edits of this wiki being done by only two or three people, which is fine as long as the edits are high quality. But it&apos;d be nice to see a (more permanent) new face.

Perhaps difficult users, inaccurate information, malicious behaviour (defacing articles, spam)?

Due to the fairly low volume of this wiki and the respect and decency shown by those who do frequent it, we rarely encounter difficult users. And since the few editors of this wiki are extremely well-informed, we rarely have to deal with inaccurate information, either.

How have you dealt with such difficulties?

In the cases where I do have to step in to halt spammers, inaccurate information, or obstinate users refusing to work with the standards of this wiki, I have many tools at my disposal. I can easily try reasoning to them due to the easy way editors can communicate with one another. I can revert edits easily if I deem them to not improve the pages that they were supposed to enhance. Failing negotiations, I can block them from editing as a last-ditch resort. I&apos;ve never had to block anyone on this wiki, but I&apos;ve seen it happen often on larger wikis such as Starcraft wiki.

How is your time/resource used: managing users or content?

The vast majority of my time spent on this wiki is managing and adding content. The users we have do a good job of keeping themselves in line.