Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20140825123912/@comment-1251315-20140827203333

Well I've been in contact with a VSTF about this thread and I've gleaned very useful statistics about the wiki's page creations between users and anon's.

In the past 3 months, anonymous users have created a total of 19 articles. They still exist, but were mostly bad pages in the main (I have no idea what those pages are though). When this is compared to everyone who has actually registered, in the same time period, users have created at least 1500 articles.

I think this proves a lot and I can safely state that disabling anonymous page creation will NOT harm this wiki in any discernible way. If an anonymous user seriously wants to create an article for the wiki, they are free to create an account, or they can send a talkpage message to an experienced editor and ask them to create the article. Disabling anonymous editing of existing articles is a bad idea however, but the key point of this post is: anon's contribute almost 0.0006% of page creations on the wiki so we will lose nothing from them not being able to create articles as anon's.

I should also point out that restricting what anon's can do is a perfectly normal part of a wiki's expansion, many of the larger wiki's on the internet try to encourage users to register and not edit under an anonymous IP address (even UESP has disabled page creation for anon users).