Anonymity

Logging in to protect your anonymity seems counterintuitive. Here's why:

If you are not logged in, Wikia labels your contributions with your IP address, a number that identifies computers on the internet.

Usually this IP address will belong to your Internet Service Provider, and will not identify you personally, but in order to be extra anonymous, Wikia allows users to create a user account that does not include any identifiable information.

Once you have created an anonymous user account, Wikia will tag your contributions with your username instead of your IP address, so use a pseudonym.