Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-736515-20170429163546/@comment-168424-20170601220459

The switch controllable by admins (except COPPA wikis, I guess) has been around for several years, but was definitely not available when Fandom/Wikia started or for many years after. Wikis that were acquired often had special arrangements so anons could not contribute. You could ask staff to disable anon contribution, but they usually tried very hard to convince you otherwise (they care more about traffic and pleasing advertisers than whether admins can manage anons). WoWWiki was registered user only editable for most of its existence. I only agreed to anon editors on WoWWiki, because it is dying and the level of contributions by anons is manageable. Whether to disable anon editing should definitely be done on a case-by-case basis, but allowing admins to do it themselves is a vast improvement from going through staff.