Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

Currently it is required that one be logged in to see section edit links. The reason for this AIUI appears to be a qualitative opinion with regard to IP ("anon") editors and what problems they might create if editing is made particularly visible and therefore easy to do. If this is a reason, I think it's unwiki, and any issues can be handled by the community, albeit not without some thought. 

Section editing is great, and as someone made clear a couple years ago IP edits account for a great deal of content. Some articles are getting longer too, and this means that IP editors who want to edit a section need to load up the whole page in edit mode. It could be that the large articles are well-developed and as such there is a modality of nudging contributors to log in to edit such articles, but I'm not certain there wouldn't be some quantifiable benefits to making section editing available to IP editors. 

There are of course other default interface issues to deal with, and some inclusive discussion about that might generate some ideas. Quick-selection of some basic CSS for options is one.

-Steven