wikiHow is a place where authors and contributors, anonymous or not, can edit articles freely (mostly) without usually being hindered in any way. As the Recent Changes ticker slides by with the latest edits, I’m always bound to see an edit from “An Anonymous visitor” quite a lot of them time. But, the page you land on when you click on it always makes me think, especially when it involves the last line of the page: “So cheers to you, anonymous editor! Thanks for sharing your knowledge here.” Does this mean whoever edited the page wanted spam? The page doesn’t know whether the edit is spam or not, and with the massive amount of spam nowadays… Or maybe he didn’t know what spam was? I have no idea…
@Hasbeen400
When you see “An Anonymous visitor”, it means that someone who was logged out made an edit to wikiHow, while using an IP address. When you find the edit, it is bound to be from a different IP address each time.
From what I’ve seen, anonymous editors can be both helpful (a bunch of them tend to correct typos/copyedit articles they’re reading) and problematic (spam, vandalism). That page is likely there for the former, showing our openness.
Maybe not all anonymous users here are spams, I have seen quite a lot of them too. Maybe some of the staff or team of WikiHow itself visit anonymously to keep their identities a secret. I don’t know myself, I am just saying…
