Is there a bugzilla feature request for hiding IP addresses?
Another solution: add a new database table that maps IP addresses to some
kind of key. Let's call it IP-key. Almost everywhere where now the IP is
used, use IP-key instead. Only resolve IP-key to IP (and vice versa) when
you have to.
Doesn't sound like a huge effort, but I guess it would take at least a few
days to weeks to implement.
I don't know how the difference between IPs and usernames is currently
handled in MediaWiki. If it's a syntactical check if a username 'looks
like' an IP, then an IP-key should 'look like' an IP. Which may lead to
confusion...
JC
On Jun 9, 2012 2:40 PM, "Anthony" <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Friesen
<lists(a)nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:49:01 -0700, Risker
<risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Do this now, please. Even I can see how easy it ought to be to replace
> the last
> three digits of an IPv4 address with XXX in publicly viewable lists
> and logs....and reduce the publicly visible IPv6 string to its first
three
segments.
It's not. This is not something simple to do technically.
When someone edits without being logged in, automatically log them in
under a newly created username "X.Y.Z.xxx #N", where N is just the
lowest number which creates a unique name.
(Of course, if you're going to do that, just abandon the whole IP
address thing altogether. When a user who is not logged in gets to
the edit screen, there are two extra fields: username and password.
Username is pre-filled with "Random User #NNNNNNNN", where NNNNNNNN is
a random not-yet-used number.)
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