Your IP is a powerful weapon in the hands of a Black Hathacker who can attack you in several disadvantageous ways, if something so mild can be applied to an induced hard drive failure, along side identity theft, etc.! But more to the point, a Wikipedia user name is portable and even more anonymonous than an IP. It can also be used to send and recieve email anonomynously to other wikipedians without risk of revealing your identity.
You can use it anywhere, world-wide, and it need never change. If you've caught the 'wikiBug', it also helps identify your edits, in time, as one's not needing constant checking and monitoring, freeing up others to do their own preferred wikipedia work. Then again, the benefit of a watchlist is powerful if you care about the topics you added. Having such, allows you to interact in the dynamic and friendly wikipedian online community, and utilize resources you have no access to as an 'Anom' contributor.
I'm a member of the welcoming committee and dedicated to helping new comers learn what they need at their own pace, so do feel free to email me or contact me on my talk page at user talk:fabartus about any little thing. Note 'nickname' or my signature is a bit different! Click on either color and see why! Best wishes,
