Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-1279279-20150808223635

Can #anyone# answer my question - even if 'the statistics' have to be divided up by type of wiki.

Otherwise all that will be posted is 'various bits of experience in various wikis', too disconnected to make any sense.

The following can be ignored for the purpose of analysis:
 * There are some wikis where signing in is required on various grounds
 * There are wikis which are effectively dormant/low activity (occasional passers through etc)
 * A number are effectively being developed by one person/only a few people (not necessarily intentionally on their part - but resolving this is another matter entirely)

Of those that are moderate to high usage:
 * What proportion are mainly or significantly used by IPs
 * What proportion are mainly being developed by named users, with a proportion of IP involvement
 * Those with little or no IP activity

What proportion of the IP activity in each case is 'spam or otherwise subtracts from the enjoyment, use or development of the wiki'; what is the negative contribution of named users; what is the distribution of negative activity? Are particular types of wiki subjected to (particular types of) problems? How effective are the blocking and protecting processes?

There should always be room for IPs (even when there aren't glitches in the system).

And - even if 'all wikis everywhere' switched to signing-in only (with full proof of address etc) there would still be people who would get around the strictures and create problems.