Editing Mediawiki/Anonymous IP Hash

Here's the gist of my anon ID hack to MediaWiki. I can't really package it as an extension or anything because it involves hacking things that
apparently aren't supposed to be hacked, but it's not hard to do. - Halcy

1. Add the following to your LocalSettings.php:

<pre>
// you can leave anon talk pages on, but you'll
// likely end up with useless crud after IDs expire
$wgDisableAnonTalk = true;
function AnonUsername() {
        # dmY = new ID per day, WY = per week
        $key = wfGetIP().'PUT RANDOM TEXT HERE'.gmdate('dmY');
        return 'ID:'.substr(crypt(md5($key), 'id'), 2, 8);
}
</pre>

(Obviously you'd change the "PUT RANDOM TEXT HERE" to some random text. Just bang on the keyboard for a bit, or if you want to be truly random, roll some dice.)

2. In includes/User.php, find the line that says
</pre>
    $this->mName = IP::sanitizeIP( wfGetIP() );
</pre>
... and change it to ...
<pre>
    $this->mName = AnonUsername();
</pre>

== aa tags ==

On a slightly related note, I hacked an extension together for <aa> tags.

* Music:DQN-kun / >>6 is not a panda

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