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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
