Is there a bugzilla feature request for hiding IP addresses? Another solution: add a new database table that maps IP addresses to some kind of key. Let's call it IP-key. Almost everywhere where now the IP is used, use IP-key instead. Only resolve IP-key to IP (and vice versa) when you have to.
Doesn't sound like a huge effort, but I guess it would take at least a few days to weeks to implement. I don't know how the difference between IPs and usernames is currently handled in MediaWiki. If it's a syntactical check if a username 'looks like' an IP, then an IP-key should 'look like' an IP. Which may lead to confusion... JC On Jun 9, 2012 2:40 PM, "Anthony" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Friesen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:49:01 -0700, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do this now, please. Even I can see how easy it ought to be to replace > >> the last > >> three digits of an IPv4 address with XXX in publicly viewable lists > >> and logs....and reduce the publicly visible IPv6 string to its first > three > >> segments. > > > > > > It's not. This is not something simple to do technically. > > When someone edits without being logged in, automatically log them in > under a newly created username "X.Y.Z.xxx #N", where N is just the > lowest number which creates a unique name. > > (Of course, if you're going to do that, just abandon the whole IP > address thing altogether. When a user who is not logged in gets to > the edit screen, there are two extra fields: username and password. > Username is pre-filled with "Random User #NNNNNNNN", where NNNNNNNN is > a random not-yet-used number.) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
