[Mediawiki-l] [PATCH] anonymous editing

[Nikola Smolenski]

Hanno Böck wrote:
> Attached is a patch to mediawiki that adds a new option 
> $wgDontSaveIPs
> 
> What it does is allowing completely anonymous wikis by replacing the IP adress 
> with 0.0.0.0.
> 
> (a bit background, there's a german campaign wirspeichernnicht.de, which wants 
> to enforce a more anonymous web and provides a couple of descriptions how to 
> disable ip saving in different apps - for mediawiki it tells to change the 
> source, though I thought a clean option would be better:
> http://www.wirspeichernnicht.de/content/view/9/24/)
> 
> Attached patch is against mediawiki 1.15rc1. Would be nice if you would apply 
> it.

I was thinking about this issue and I believe I have "the best of both 
worlds" solution, if someone is willing to code it. Take an IP address, 
concatenate it with a long string (salt), take its MD5 and use that as 
the anons' username. Two different IPs will have two different anon 
usernames, but for the readers it will not be possible to find out what 
is the original IP from the username.