-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wikimedia Foundation believes otherwise. Take a look at their Privacy Policy <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy> (relevant excerpt follows):
"=== IP and other technical information === When a visitor requests or reads a page, or sends email to a Wikimedia server, no more information is collected than is typically collected by web sites. The Wikimedia Foundation may keep raw logs of such transactions, but these will not be published or used to track legitimate users." I find it extremely unlikely that the WMF will allow an exception to this rule. While I don't care if people know my IP address(es), some people are understandably quite frankly scared by the idea of broadcasting their IP address to the world, since very often, rather accurate details about the location - amongst other things - of the user can be found from checking the IP address. In the end, it pretty much comes down to the fact that the WMF simply won't release this information, short of a ruling from the Board of Trustees. Not very likely to happen. In addition, by extension of that excerpt from the privacy policy, I don't think the Foundation would agree to publish anonymized logs either. You also point out that many users edit anonymously, publishing their IP address instead of a username. I would view this under the context of the Privacy Policy as voluntary release of IP address by a user, much as if I posted the IP address I use on my Wikipedia userpage. As for NATs and dynamic IP addresses, NATs really don't mean anything except at large corporations or schools (aside from a convenient way to put multiple computers on one network); even then, the "external" IP used by the NAT/Internet gateway is usually a sufficient privacy concern. And dynamic IP addresses usually don't change very much - for example, my dynamic IP doesn't actually change unless I shut off my DSL modem for a good few minutes, which I haven't done since the last power outage. And, of course, anyone editing from a school, business, or other institution would most likely have a static IP address, which could (should?) even, through RDNS, resolve back to the name of that institution. As for open proxies for editing, they are generally disallowed from editing. - -- - --FastLizard4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FastLizard4) dinar qorbanof wrote: > i do not think that ip address is so important private information, > many people browse through dynamic ip and NAT. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFM8iqzIUvvVwjDo7YRAs4hAKDGfnpsRk6iBkUf4C1jiIWSF1UCzQCePU2O a/ji6Ujigzv/i9oDGNDlfKY= =AM8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l