User blog comment:NOBODY/Popularizing the Nitrome Wiki/@comment-4997528-20121213032015/@comment-3060206-20121214060938

I think one of the help pages once stated that the main page should not be protected "just because it is the main page" and that visitors who see that the wiki is open to editing will be discouraged from editing when they see that the main page is locked. That being said, Nitrome Wiki has a large - well, larger - number of users compared to the last few years. It is probably wise to protect the main page and encourage unregistered contributors to create accounts. Of course, the requirement is that the main page shouldn't be sysop protected, so we'll be fine either way.