Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20150722200934/@comment-1724320-20150722202410

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

Worth a read for a different perspective on anonymous editing.

Unregistered users make about 20% of our article space edits, doing a lot of work on new releases and other underdeveloped content. I'll wait and see what the data says, but my instinct is that completely disabling anonymous editing would not only cut off those useful edits, but also cut off the main pipeline of new editors making accounts. It's hard enough to get unregistered users (or anyone for that matter) to click the edit button -- they'll be even less inclined to go through with it if they need to sign up first.