At 06:29 PM 1/6/2005 -0500, Lisa Jill wrote:

Hey all,

I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links. I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how to find that information out from the wiki.

Also, I did a scan through the database tables, thinking "this ought to be tracked in MediaWiki someplace". But it doesn't seem to me that MediaWiki tracks the IP addresses of logged-in users. If you aren't logged in then it will record your IP address in place of your username, which is good, but not useful for getting IPs of logged-in people.

In the RecentChanges table there is an IP address field, but on my installation the column is empty of values. Perhaps in the future it will hold IP addresses for all recent edits, and then you could easily see who is trashing your wiki. But who knows? (Brion Vibber--that's who!)

-Erik