####User story:
As a** logged out user**, I want the option to edit without creating a permanent account AND without my IP address displaying publicly, because I value privacy and don't care to create an account.
As a **temporary account holder**, I want to understand that I am already logged into a temporary account and what a temporary account is, because then I can edit with confidence.
As a **logged in account holder** or a "logged out visitor**, I want to clearly differentiate and understand temporary accounts from permanent accounts.
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IP Masking will affect lots of our products, features, tools, gadgets, etc. **This task is for tracking work to update those that are owned by #Growth-Team, ahead of IP Masking being enabled on WMF sites.**
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####Background:
**Project documentation: [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation | IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation ]]**
**What is IP Masking and why is the Wikimedia Foundation masking IPs?**
IP masking hides the IP addresses of unregistered editors on Wikimedia projects, fully or partially, from everyone except those who need access to fight spam, vandalism, harassment and disinformation.
With changes to privacy laws and standards (e.g., the General Data Protection Regulation and the global conversation about privacy that it started), the Wikimedia Foundation Legal team has decided to protect user privacy by hiding IPs from the general public. However, we will continue to give access to users who need to see them in order to protect the wikis.
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####Scope of this Epic:
**All of the work needed for the MVP release of IP Masking that relates to features or workflows owned or maintained by the #Growth-Team. **
See {T326816}, particularly **What will be affected**.
A preliminary investigation conducted by the AHT team (T326759) has found that the following may be affected:
* GrowthExperiments
* Homepage
* Mentorship features
* Help panel
* Welcome survey
[Non-maintained projects](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/1114/):
* Echo
* NewUserMessage
* PageTriage
* StructuredDiscussions (aka Flow)
* Thanks
Other flows affected:
* Account creation
**However, the Growth team is responsible for checking all #growth-team maintained features. The following are all of the extensions and features maintained by the Growth team:**
GrowthExperiments
[] Welcome Survey
[] Help Panel
[] Newcomer homepage
[] Suggested edits
[] Mentor dashboard
[] Community Configuration
Other Growth Maintained features / projects:
[] Thanks
[] StructuredDiscussions (aka Flow)
[] Notifications
[x] PageTriage: IP masking work to be owned by #moderator-tools-team (T339252)
[] Wikilove
[x] MW-extensions-Nuke: IP masking work to be owned by #moderator-tools-team (T340631)
[] MW-Recent-changes
[] MW-extensions-GuidedTour
[] MW-extensions-NewUserMessage
[] MW-extensions-NewUserActions
[] MW-extensions-NewUserNotif
[] MW-Watchlist
[] MW-Extensions-ORES