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Virago a-go-go wrote: My wiki has been hit with periodic vandalism by anons. A page here. A page there. I took the step of restricting the pages I considered the most important to access by registered users only. A few weeks ago my Talk page was vandalized by an anon. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally flipped the switch and now wiki contents can only be edited by logged-in users.

wiki/Special:WikiFeatures/Require all contributors to log in

Sometimes you just have to do what is best for the wiki -- not what is best for those who want to play in it. As I see it, if people really care about the subject of my wiki they will become registered users.

As has already been suggested, Wikia should seriously consider employing https://

I agree with the HTTPS idea, and frankly entrusting any login process to a site lacking TLS or SSL encryption is pretty brash. But there's server identification and certification with a CA so its quite an effort. And when its done, any errors made in the process causes incomplete or zero HTTPS & impacts the whole experience by making the website less secure than a HTTP one. It will take time and investment to do to say the least.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6073543?hl=en

 Speedit   ✐  talk   contribs  12:32, August 11, 2015 (UTC)