Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-4129195-20150722205641

Here are my thoughts about this:

Anonymous editing is something that must not be disabled much. I am aware that it is being "abused" to circumvent blocks, to vandal articles and to cause trouble. But such things can be dealt with quickly and swiftly, leaving those new ones that want to edit to do it as an anon, first. Everyone has the first experiences of being an anon before becoming a registered user. Unless it is the Staff itself, but that's a story for another time.

Anyway, the anon editing should be disabled only if it is necessary. As said already, you want to motivate the users to register into the network and continue on. I am working on the Wiki that has anon editing disabled. It feels slightly empty without them. Then again, there was a lot of vandalism present, but I blame that for lack of admins.

To motivate, hm, it is a good question. Perhaps this is something that Wikias should do individually, like making a tournament/contest/event that involves users to be logged in. Or even presenting a community through a video should also help, see the person could fit into the Wiki. On a global scale, though, is something I'd have to think over, I cannot give a clear answer to that.

Those were my thoughts on that.