User blog comment:Meyguhmein/Weird.../@comment-4111680-20121028065650

If the publish button is clicked before the page has finished loading, the unfinished Metadata would be posted. The Metadata also resets every time the page is reloaded. It's actually two Wikia glitches combined into a double whammy.

Here's the explanation: Most information on the internet is actually a string of 0s and 1s that is converted into words and pictures and applications by the computer. Wikia is a useful tool that provides free conversion to HTML5 from 0s and 1s, and in return, Wikia receives some traffic. Wikia converts binary data to HTML, which is easy for computers to read. However, data must be converted twice, which takes time.

When data (i.e. an edit) is published, whatever info was present will be expressed. So if the first conversion (the HTML) was present at the time of publishing, then the junk (thanks to KF for the term to describe the gibberish) would appear, not legible text.

If you take too long to submit an edit, Wikia would automatically raise a flag, prompting you to read over your edit. "?action=submit" will appear in the URL bar. This can be helpful when posting big edits or blogs to proofread what you wrote, but it's annoying if you decided to make a sandwich and it took longer than expected. Clicking the "Publish" button too quickly causes the above glitch to occur.

There are four remedies. Click "source", press Ctrl+A, press Ctrl+C, open up Notepad/WordPad/MS Word/OO Writer, press Ctrl+V, press Ctrl+A, press Ctrl+C, refresh the browser page, go to source mode again, press Ctrl+A, press Ctrl+V, and publish. A shorter (but riskier) path is to click "source", press Ctrl+A+C, refresh the page, click "source", press Ctrl+A+V, and publish. Another way is to publish the edit (which brings up the "submit" prompt), wait ten seconds, and publish. Before publishing, you can click "source" to review the edit. If the content is not gibberish, then it is safe to publish.

tl;dr Please be patient with Wikia. It's not perfect. :)