On 19/09/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
... it's very very very easy to accidentally edit
while
logged out, especially when you cross over to one of our other wikis
like commons or meta.
Mmm. I have, in the past, edited (unintentionally) logged out from
three different home addresses, from work, and from a friend's machine
*whose IP resolved to her name*.
(Seriously. Oh, you have to love badly-designed university networks.)
Providing privacy strong enough to stop a stalker for
people who are
indirectly spewing out large amounts of information about themselves
in the form of edits is just a really hard problem which I don't have
a solution for...
Mmm. Completely concealing all information which could be an indirect
pointer would lead you to spend all your time randomly copyediting
articles on things that don't interest you, interacting with no-one,
*and nothing else*, which whilst useful assumes a rather high level of
dedication to the project :-)
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- Andrew Gray
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