Export contributions list of IP (or of IP range) of temporary accounts
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	NicoScribe
	Jul 8 2025, 11:52 PM

Description

Feature summary:
The special pages Special:IPContributions and Special:GlobalContributions are much better than simple lists of diffs. These special pages show, for each edit, useful information: the date and time of the edit + the diff + the history + the difference in size between revisions + the page name + the temporary account + the edit summary.
An export button should be added to the special pages Special:IPContributions and Special:GlobalContributions. It would produce a wikitext (containing the useful information listed above). This wikitext must not contain the IP or IP range.

Use case:
Vandals will often block/clear cookies, so they will use many temporary accounts. The scenario contains four steps:

A contributor AAA (who is not a temporary account IP viewer) asks VVV (who is a temporary account IP viewer) whether a vandal, using one temporary account, has other temporary accounts.
VVV checks this case. VVV finds that there is a unique relevant narrow IP range, and VVV finds that the vandal has used 240 temporary accounts in many days (= 240 vandalisms).
It is very easy for VVV to see, in Special:IPContributions/<narrow IP range> or Special:GlobalContributions/<narrow IP range>, the 240 contributions. But it is difficult to send to AAA the list of 240 contributions, without showing the IP. Similarly, it is difficult to send to AAA the list of 240 temporary accounts (and it is useless because we can't expect AAA to click on each one of the 240 temporary accounts, in order to check the unique contribution).
With an export button (built into the special pages) (to produce a wikitext of the useful information about the 240 contributions), VVV could review this wikitext, and adjust this wikitext, to prepare the answer to send to AAA.

Reported in: Talk:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts#Show contributions instead of a temporary accounts list

Benefits:
All the users with access to the IP addresses of temporary accounts could prepare their answers, when they receive requests about vandals (using many temporary accounts).