Forum:Anonymous users create more new empty pages since migration to UCP

I'm an admin on the Duck Game Fandom/Wikia which gets somewhere around 500-1000 visits a day. Since the migration the the new Unified Community Platform I've noticed an uptick in anonymous/IP users creating new empty, blank pages.

They seem to follow the red links in articles to non-existent articles, the page titles are not malicious or totally random. I'm not sure why, maybe visitors get confused and don't know how to exit from the editor?

It's not a huge problem, it happens maybe once or twice a week, but this is still a lot more than before on the old platform.

Is there a way to disallow anonymous users from creating new pages? I found an old discussion here, apparently Fandom admins are able to enforce this temporarily, but it has not become a feature of the Fandom platform as of now (as far as I can see).

Thanks ImbaSteckdose (talk) 22:19, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * You can protect a page and only allow it's creation for autoconfirmed users or administrators, but you would have to do that manually one by one. So you wouldn't be able to just flip a switch for all page creation. What you CAN do, however, is set your wiki so only users who are logged in can contribute at all. I personally have that on one of my wikis that was getting a lot of bad anonymous traffic as well. 22:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not a fan of excluding anonymous users from editing in this case. They provide lots of valuable information and small corrections in this particular Wiki. I don't really get much bad anonymous traffic otherwise. I wish there were more granular controls for this... ImbaSteckdose (talk) 22:26, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * You can always and suggest this! That's the best way to suggest new ideas!  22:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I will try that ImbaSteckdose (talk) 23:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Small follow-up from me, I contacted support and they were able to set up a restrcition that prevents anonymous editors from creating new pages. ImbaSteckdose (talk) 14:33, 9 February 2021 (UTC)