Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-17452081-20130903030412/@comment-188432-20130913134113

No two wikis are completely the same, and the general advice given above may not apply in this case. There might be a perfectly rational explanation for why the original poster wants this level of privacy. While it's true that Wikia won't allow a completely private wiki, they may be able to come up with a compromise solution that effectively achieves the same ends.

I would suggest that you talk to a member of Wikia Staff through Special:Contact to get some counselling about the options that are available in your particular case.

Explain with as much detail as possible why you want to keep your wiki more private than usual, and the community support team will be more likely to help you find a way to address your concerns. If you just write in and say, "Can I prevent people from editing at my wiki?" the answer will probably be a simple, "No, that ain't how we roll."

The other bit of advice I'd give to you is to be realistic about the importance of your wiki. As a general rule, it takes quite a while — years, sometimes — for people to even notice a wiki. There are a huge number of them in the Wikia network alone. Your anonymity is all but assured, anyway — unless you go out of your way to get noticed. So don't use Special:Promote, remove it from your list of favourite wikis, don't tell people about it, and you'll probably get next to no activity, anyway. An effectively private wiki is pretty easy to achieve on Wikia.