On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:28:01 -0800 (PST), Robert rkscience100@yahoo.com wrote:
If I understood a previous recent letter here, then Admins and Sysops cannot find out a user's ISP when they are logged in. Is this correct?
Replace "ISP" ("Internet Service Provider") with "IP" (short for "IP address", the unique identifier every computer gives out during all sorts of requests online) and yes, this is correct. It is one of the benefits listed on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account?
As noted there and, more expansively, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_privacy_policy (see the sections headed "Identification of an author" and "Private logging"), your IP address is still recorded for a short period *as it is by almost any web-site you visit*, and in particular circumstances may be retrieved by developers, but it is most definitely *not* available through the wiki software itself, even if the user has "sysop" (aka "admin") privileges.