As a wiki, what we do is allow anyone to edit, and I don’t think there are (or should be) any plans to change that. I was an anon for years before I made an account, and I just enjoyed spellchecking, approving questions, and doing anything I could to help. I’ve also seen some newbies and anons make some great edits and start amazing new articles, and I’d hate for that privilege to be taken away from them.
We do get some vandalism from anons and newbies (and that’s to be expected; happens on all sorts of wikis), but I think letting them edit and write articles is what makes wikiHow wikiHow. Our articles aren’t written by one person or staff team - they’re written and edited by our vast community, and that community includes our newer users and our anonymous users, too.
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