User blog:DinoKev/Limitations of the wiki for trading

Hi everyone,

The wiki is an encyclopedia that everyone can edit, and the trading page is supposed to be a small part of the wiki. Maintaining an informational site is different from maintaining a trading site. In order for someone to be an admin, he/she will have to know how to edit the articles. For this reason the trading page is not usually monitored by the admins and this had led to many problems in the past such as spamming, scamming, personal attacks etc and this has given the wiki a bad reputation. I wish we could promote trustworthy traders as moderators to look after the trade page, but this feature is not available in wikia.

In order to solve the problems, the marketplace will have to be seperated from Zombie Jombie Wiki. When the seperation is complete, trading will no longer be allowed on the wiki. At the moment other than, the other trading sites are hosted by either facebook or free PHBbb forum. Each site is unique in its own way and Izamaninl is currently building a new trading site to replace the current marketplace. Although this new site will be unrelated to the wiki, some features on the wiki will be retained for this new site, for e.g. mobile enabled to allow posting in mobile view and compulsory to login to post. When this new site is ready we will stop trading on the wiki in a slow pace to allow people to migrate to the other trading sites. More news to come.

— DinoKev talk 10:32, September 13, 2012 (UTC)