On 12/04/07, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
I can only reply to this thread as a whole by repeating something that I've said before, which is that if anonymous editing weren't possible, I for one wouldn't be on Wikipedia today. I'm one of the many who came across an article that contained something that needed fixing, discovered that I could fix it myself, and got involved from there. If I'd had to register an account to fix it, it's highly likely I would have just wandered off.
I look at it like this:
If registration is required, Wikipedia is no longer "the encyclopaedia that anyone can edit".