Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-89.243.194.179-20150811040133

Jackiespeel wrote: What I said above about different parts of the Wikiaverse - a fandom-type wiki will have different requirements to some other types. That's very much to the point.

On a wiki such as PokéFanon, as described by Universalguardian1003, where a page is basically owned by the user who created it, disabling anonymous editing probably makes excellent sense.

On a wiki such as Doctor Who Answers, where a user who wants to know something posts a question for the express purpose of having that question answered (i.e., the page edited) by someone else -- anyone else -- who knows the answer, disabling anonymous editing would be destructive.

Even on a wiki where disabling anonymous editing might make sense, it's quite possible that it would make more sense in some parts of that wiki than in others. For example, where a page is owned by its creator & shouldn't be edited by others, it might nonetheless be valuable to allow IP users to post comments about that page -- as long as the comments were polite & were intended to be constructive, that is.

Different wikis have different purposes & therefore different needs. Some wikis are more subject to malicious edits than others are & that can change over time. A vandal (or several) may "discover" a particular wiki, attack it for a while, then lose interest in it & go away again.

One size does not fit all.