Board Thread:DC Wiki Discussion/@comment-1738746-20151207230708

It was brought to my attention a week and a half ago via the DC Wiki thread on the forums that anon editing had been disabled by Wikia due to Wikia believing our wiki was targeted to an audience younger than 13 years of age. Since then, I contacted Wikia with evidence of DC's ToS that demonstrated users of 13 years and younger weren't allowed to join the site, and the restriction was lifted.

Anons have now been able to edit for the past 5 days and in that time, we have received 9 different anon editors on the wiki; 8 of their edits were undone with 6 of them being vandalism. With 6 accounts of vandalism in 5 days, I'd like to bring a discussion on this feature, and whether or not anon editing is an appropriate feature to have on our wiki.

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Final Stats for 1 Week:
 * Total Anons: 16 (this doesn't count anons who may have edited more than once)
 * Total Edits Reverted: 11 (duplicates for anons not included)
 * Of Which Were Vandalism: 8

69% of edits this week done by anon users had to be reverted, with 73% of these edits being vandalism. Overall, 50% of anon contribution this week was vandalism. (Again, all of these counts unique editors, and doesn't count any additional edits made by the same editor.)

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Additional Stats: 13 Dec - 10 Jan (following the initial week above)
 * Total Anons: 21 (this doesn't count anons who may have edited more than once)
 * Total Edits Reverted: 9 (duplicates for anons not included)
 * Of Which Were Vandalism: 4

43% of edits in this time period done by anon users had to be reverted, with 44% of these reverted edits being vandalism. Overall, 19% of anon contribution during this time period was vandalism. (Again, all of these counts unique editors, and doesn't count any additional edits made by the same editor.) 