User blog:Drew1200/Editing on the New Wiki

I just wanted to inform all of the editors that you can beginning editing on the new wiki at any time! Currently, we have about half of our articles imported. The rest will be finished within the next couple of days. Right now it's mostly just archive pages, but they really need a lot of clean up, so there's plenty to edit!

For those of you who are interested, I'm going to make a short review on editing on the new site. Some of you have been worried about the editing, and if it is as easy to do as it is one Wikia. I've made about 200 edits so far, and I haven't experienced a single problem. It's actually all be very good. There was specifically a couple things I noticed about it that are better than Wikia.

The first one was the ads! Even when you're logged in, there's tons of ads on Wikia. On the new wiki, there's only one. The ad I am specifically worried about while editing, is the one the drops down from the top. It's technically not an ad, but it does advertise other wikis. When I'm editing, I constantly accidentally press one of those buttons. Occasionally, the menu will suddenly drop down when I'm about to hit the edit button. I'll accidentally press a link, and it'll take me to another wiki. It's not a big deal, it's just incredibly annoying.

Another thing I noticed was the load speed. When I'm editing on Wikia, I have to wait for the page to load. I actually have a couple seconds to do something else while the page loads. On the new wiki, it loads instantly. Some of you have been telling me that it's loading very slowly for you. I'm not sure why that is, but for me, it loads about as fast as google.com (AKA instantly).

The final important thing that I noticed was that the editing interface is very nice. Right now, the tab editing isn't working due to a weird cookie glitch, but we're working on fixing it. The buttons work just fine for editing, though. I can't say that they're a whole lot better than Wikia, but the buttons themselves are much more beautiful. Once the tabs are functional, I'm sure it'll make editing even easier and faster.

Overall, from an editor's view, the new wiki takes away all of the many problems I had with editing on this wiki. It's faster, it's easier, and it's just nicer. The one and only downside to editing on the new wiki is that you will have to use source mode all of the time. For me, and other users used to source mode, that is actually a benefit. Source mode is so much better than visual once you know how to use it. Even if you do like visual more, I would say that the other benefits far outweigh it. If you're an editor, and you haven't tried out the new wiki yet, I would strongly encourage you to do so.