User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Updates to COPPA/@comment-118323-20130624185336

Great and informative summary, Sean.

While disabling anonymous editing may be a shift in the way visitors interact with your wiki I believe that in the long-term it can be for the best. Users with accounts return more frequently and can actually become a part of your community, rather than just one or two-time contributors.

And yes, a lot of people may use anonymous editing as a way to explore the wiki software but the web has radically evolved and transformed since MediaWiki was built in 2002. Being required to have an account is nowhere near the burden today as it was a decade ago.