https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27992
--- Comment #4 from Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> 2011-11-14 19:00:14 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > What do you propose to do with values such as 210.50.203.xxx or > 123.office.bomis.com ? they are not valid IP addresses, so they should not be treated as ip adresses. We we *should* recognize valid ipv6 addresses (but only in the form mediawiki uses when recording them for anon edits). > If researchers are going to make software to crawl it by themselves, doesn't > seem unreasonable that they filter such values to their liking, too. requiring our users to fix our broken output isn't really the best practice, is it? we can easily fix this, so we should. Ideally, truely anonymous edits should be distinguishable from edits by unknown authors in the database. Instead of using user=0 for both, unknown users could have -1 or something. But I suppose there's no knowing what that would break... adding an extra "anon" flag along with every xxx_user field would be a pain too. Oh, well. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
