Talk:Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2/@comment-24920529-20140518010556/@comment-4531340-20140518233204

Yeah, well, this is a well-known wiki, that would tend to attract children, and COPPA (an online protection law, designed to protect children by limiting what information can be collected from children under 13; coincidentally, I believe that's why, according to Wikia's ToU, they can't let you have an account if you're under 13) was amended last year to include IP addresses as one of the things that can't be collected. Since the MediaWiki system relies on IP addresses for identification of anonymous users, they decided it would be easier to just disable anonymous editing on wikis that would tend to attract children under 13, rather than try and re-engineer the entire MediaWiki system.