User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: April 19, 2017/@comment-30109486-20170420124425/@comment-26923519-20170421051111

Well, they did make it a bit more difficult to go into Special:WikiActivity via anonymous for two reasons:


 * It is rarely used by anonymous users.


 * Anonymous users come to read articles rather then what's recently happening in a wiki.