Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140825123912/@comment-26474238-20140827180144

SuperSajuuk wrote:

GarouxBloodline wrote: That is going against the very collaborative spirit of Wikia itself. Instead of conjecture, you guys can send in a report to Wikia Staff, and they can provide the factual numbers of anon edits on this wiki. You might be surprised at how much more work the anonymous community does in comparison to any registered user. While anon's edit here frequently, I have very rarely seen contributive edits coming from anonymous editors. The only contributive edits of anons are generally existing members who haven't signed in so that doesn't exactly count. I do agree that we should leave anon's free to edit on the wiki but ONLY existing articles and disabling their ability to create new articles. I do agree with them not having the ability to directly create new articles - on a large wiki like this one, there are many rules that newcoming anons simply do not account for a majority of the time, which leads to poor quality articles that do not fit wiki standards - better for them to ask to have an article created by a more veteran user.

But I still disagree with the notion that the anonymous community rarely makes productive edits here. Around a year ago, back when I was still a semi-active editor, the anonymous made more productive edits than any registered users, and that has been my experiences across various other wikis, as well. If a member of Wikia Staff were to be asked to pull up their charts on anonymous activity here, which I have been able to partially check by going into the recent changes log, the anonymous community will be shown to be putting in an extraordinary amount of work. To deny them of their editing, is to deny a wiki of much potential and aspiring editors.