To my knowledge, there are currently six of these Twitter bots (Canada, Denmark, France, Sweden, UK, US). I have collected them in a Twitter list: https://twitter.com/palnatoke/lists/wikiedit
Please speak up if you notice more, so I can include them in the list, too. Regards, Ole On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Gilles Dubuc <gil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > This interesting bot showed up on hackernews today: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018284 > > While in this instance the access to anonymous' editors IP addresses is > definitely useful in terms of identifying edits with probable conflict of > interest, it makes me wonder what the history is behind the fact that > anonymous editors are identified by their IP addresses on WMF-hosted wikis. > > IP addresses are closely guarded for registered users, why wouldn't > anonymous users be identified by a hash of their IP address in order to > protect their privacy as well? The exact same functionality of being able > to see all edits by a given anonymous IP would still exist, the IP itself > just wouldn't be publicly available, protected with the same access rights > as registered users'. > > The "use case" that makes me think of that is someone living in a > totalitarian regime making a sensitive edit and forgetting that they're > logged out. Or just being unaware that being anonymous on the wiki doesn't > mean that their local authorities can figure out who they are based on IP > address and time. Understanding that they're somewhat protected when logged > in and not when logged out requires a certain level of technical > understanding. The easy way out of this argument is to state that these > users should be using Tor or something similar. But I still wonder why we > have this double standard of protecting registered users' privacy in > regards to IP addresses and not applying the same for anonymous users, when > simple hashing would do the job. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
