User blog comment:BertH/Anonymous editing and your community/@comment-25653892-20150725014010

Don't we have Special:Protectsite?

Other than that, it's a feature about which you have a choice to enable or disable, and it should come in handy for wikias burdened by the worst kinds of IPs.

To put this another way… I remember the Mercedes-Benz DLC for Mario Kart 8 (which, may I add, I still loathe to this day for being unfiltered, out-of-place Product Placement). People threw a hysteria party about that because you have to download it, being an update retroactively required before you can download the good DLC. That was also "a change no one ha[d] to embrace", in the most technical of senses.

However, wikias don't work in nearly quite the same way as some old über-popular racing game. The ability to add this feature is optional, as is the ability to download DLC packs one-by-one, but adding it is up to the community, reversible, and truly optional without having to miss out on later features if it is not added. "You have to make the decision" indeed, and you may or may not have to depending on the consequences (and the number of anonymous, sometimes outright infantile newbs attracted to your wikia's subject).

Wikia, you're starting to redeem yourselves in my eyes. Keep up the lack-of-mess-ups streak!