Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24504790-20140204143225/@comment-168424-20140205232325

You may be right, but allowing unfettered anonymous editing is definitely a mixed bag. Unless you have access to internal Wikia data that shows that anonymous users are helping grow your wiki and not causing more problems than they are worth, it isn't clear that it is a always a helpful philosophy.

Also, not every Wikia wiki allows anonymous editing. Until a few months ago, WoWWiki didn't. Even now, I'm not sure it is a net positive.