Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-2111068-20130703015449

Being based in the United States, Wikia, the company that hosts the Sly Cooper Wiki, operates under U.S. federal laws. One such law is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which limits the collection of personal information from people younger than 13 years of age. As of July 1st, 2013 new changes to COPPA have come into effect that require Wikia to make some slight adjustments with the way it handles data collection on some wikis in order to maintain compliance with the law. Some wikis are more directed to children under 13 years of age than others. To identify those wikis, Wikia performed a comprehensive review of their largest communities according to the criteria set forth by the Federal Trade Commission (the ones that oversee the application and enforcement of COPPA). The Sly Cooper Wiki was one of these identified wikis. For sites in that category, Wikia is not allowed to collect certain information. The biggest change to the law is that this information now includes IP addresses, which is the way MediaWiki software tracks anonymous edits. As a result, Wikia has disabled anonymous editing on the identified wikis. Anonymous users will still be able to read pages on the Sly Cooper Wiki, but to contribute in any way, they must create an account. We hope that all contributors who are eligible for an account decide to sign up for one. You can do so here. For anonymous contributions that have already been made to the wiki, there will be no attempt to stifle or remove them as they date from before the recent updates.

Originally written by Electric Cricket. 