It's actually required so as to provide attribution as per the Creative Commons and other licenses we operate under.
Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipo...@gmail.com "יְהִי אוֹר" On Mar 27, 2015 4:15 AM, "Francesco Ariis" <fa...@ariis.it> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:19:35PM -0400, Brian J Mingus wrote: > > I think it's rather curious that edits to Wikipedia aren't private. Why > log > > the IP address? Why log anything? It's invasive. > > I guess it's a sensible choice against abuse (vandalism) while still > allowing non registered users editing rights > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
