[Mediawiki-l] [PATCH] anonymous editing

[Daniel Kinzler]

Nikola Smolenski schrieb:
> 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.

To take this further: just add a hook point for munging the IP before it is
stored. So plugins for different behavior can be written easily, and no new
global config var is needed.

--- daniel