Hello Abigail,
Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:53:28 PM, you wrote:
My first
proposal: after I am logged on, I should have the option to
disallow my IP address from anonymous posting. So when I am on
wikipedia once again, anonymous, the system won't give me the
possibility to save changes without logging in (or, may be, pushing
explicit button "I want to edit without logging in, with ip-address
logged").
This would be a very dangerous facility, if provided. It would
mean
that anyone using a proxy server could block everyone else using the
proxy server, inadvertently.
Why? I don't propose letting to log in only for
THAT only user. Any
user will be able to log in - or even to post anonymously - it just
won't be so implicit.
If we did something like this it would need doing
with cookies, I suppose.
I think, usual "remember my password across session" option is already
working through cookies. So if cookies are set properly, I will be
already logged on. And if I'm not logged on, cookies are wrong - so I
think your proposition has little sense...
I'm not sure if I'm in the right list? If not, I apologize.
I'm having about these same kinds of concerns. I'll be installing a WIKI
for a controversial subject where:
1) Users are concerned about their identity, and _cannot_ have their IP's seen
by others.
2) Vandalism could be rampant.
For (1), someone advised me and I was able to easily edit ProxyTools.php to
always record the IP as 123.123.123.123 and that was great, but ofcourse this
has problems if we want to deal with vandals. The only way out would then be to
disable anonymous edits, but as someone on this list made the point: If we do
that, we're going to loose big time as much less people will edit.
So I need anonymous editing, with safety of the users ensured and vandalism
taken care of too.
Is there any way where only SysOps can see the actual IP address, while others
see the same string "xxx"?
A good solution would be to have some sort of a coded IP which would still be a
unique number identifying the user but not the real IP which exposes the
location of the individual, but this would be too complex.
How can we change it such that, if a Sysop is logged in, he sees the real IP's
but if its anyone else, they just see "111.111.111.111"
The IP address is recorded in atleast 3 different databases.
I'm trying to find out a way for doing this. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
thank you
Eric
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