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