Value, respect, and strive for diversity in editors

I'm surprised no one has discussed anonymous editors. I think that 99% of all vandalism is from anonymous (IP) accounts, and on several articles I edit I am certain that several editors use single use account names/sockpuppets to argue their points. As an editor, I watch several articles daily that typically have no editor activity, but frequent vandal activity, and it wears an editor out. If you are going to increase quality of editing, these things need to be addressed. Wiki wants to be open to everyone, and I know that is why they allow the anonymous editing, but I think you encourage the same thing even if people have to create an account. Has anyone done any research to ratio good edits v bad by IP accounts? I guess its impossible, but we all know what I am talking about here.

Akuvar17:59, 6 May 2010

It wouldn't be too hard to do a study of edits by IPs. Not a comprehensive study, but to grab a few articles from different topics and different quality, and look over the IP edits to look for vandalism.

Randomran15:27, 7 May 2010