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For anonymous edits, MediaWiki makes available the IP addresses to everyone forever, which is a poor privacy practice, and can cause various problems to the user, from public embarrassment to outing to being prosecuted by a repressive regime. In the various discussions about this (see [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Exposure_of_user_IP_addresses#Previous_discussions|Exposure of user IP addresses]] for an overview) one option that came up was to automatically create temporary accounts for anonymous users and allow them to be converted to real accounts later. This task is for the discussion of the technical and social feasibility of that option.

For anonymous edits, MediaWiki makes available the IP addresses to everyone forever, which is a poor privacy practice, and can cause various problems to the user, from public embarrassment to outing to being prosecuted by a repressive regime. In the various discussions about this (see [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Exposure_of_user_IP_addresses#Previous_discussions|Exposure of user IP addresses]] for an overview) one option that came up was to automatically create temporary accounts for anonymous users and allow them to be converted to real accounts later. This task is for the discussion of the technical and social feasibility of that option. See also: * {T20981} * {T12957}

For anonymous edits, MediaWiki makes available the IP addresses to everyone forever, which is a poor privacy practice, and can cause various problems to the user, from public embarrassment to outing to being prosecuted by a repressive regime. In the various discussions about this (see [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Exposure_of_user_IP_addresses#Previous_discussions|Exposure of user IP addresses]] for an overview) one option that came up was to automatically create temporary accounts for anonymous users and allow them to be converted to real accounts later. This task is for the discussion of the technical and social feasibility of that option. See also: * {T20981} * {T12957}