Board Thread:DC Wiki Discussion/@comment-1738746-20151207230708/@comment-27277476-20151211182920

The thing with anonymous editing is that it's more likely that vandals will edit maliciously because, think about it, if you were intending to just blanking pages as fast as you could, would you really make an account just to do that? Go through the process of selecting a username, putting an email, decoding the captcha, and then verifying your email? It's just not convenient when you're vandalizing wikis. However, it is convenient for users who want to add content to a wiki but don't actually want to make an account because it's just a passing thing. Like, it's the same thing as with vandals. If you're just going to do a few edits it's far more convenient not to go through the whole process of signing up. On both sides it's a matter of convenience, just both sides have different intent.

I think we should keep it so that anon users can continue to edit, because it will bring more people from the forums to the wiki when they want to make a few minor edits. Does it mean we have to look into every anon edit, yes, which isn't a lot of fun. But for the sake of the wiki and bringing editors I think we should keep it on. We just have to check anonymous edits, but I personally believe people should check all edits that are made.