On 01/13/2014 12:01 PM, Thyge wrote:
I'm not into the technicalities, but to hide ip's entirely on the sites would be the biggest advance in improving privacy I can think of...
True, but transparency has also always been important to Wikimedia. Without being a checkuser, or even an admin, people can see what company/ISP/school/government office a vandal is editing from, and report it to their abuse team.
Without publically displayed IPs for anonymous edits, people couldn't do that.
Matt Flaschen