Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-26339491-20191229000800

Tupka217 wrote: 90.253.123.68 wrote: Wikia have made a lot of wikis registered only to edit in the past few years. I believe they are slowly phasing out anonymous editing experience as a whole and gradually forcing them to join with an account. A shame because freedom of anonymous editing was what gave Wikia an edge over some of its competitors.

For those wikis that are targeted at younger viewers, the deciding factor was COPPA. For most others, it was the community itself that decided it.

Fandom has no intention to phase out anonymous editing. Tupka is right: Where anon editing is disabled, that's either because the wiki's topic is aimed at children and we want to reduce the chance of harmful vandalism and spam, or because the community themselves have requested it.