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By default, MediaWiki displays IP Addresses of an anonymous editor in edit history. This obviously has a chilling effect on anonymous user participation. | By default, MediaWiki displays IP Addresses of an anonymous editor in edit history. This obviously has a chilling effect on anonymous user participation. | ||
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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 | 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 <!-- Note that this mod makes banning IPs quite hard. Maybe if there was a way to just not show the IP address to non-Admin users, and still store the IP in the database, that would be better. But on the flip side, tanasinn.info seems to be doing fine with it | apparently aren't supposed to be hacked, but it's not hard to do. - Halcy <!-- Note that this mod makes banning IPs quite hard. Maybe if there was a way to just not show the IP address to non-Admin users, and still store the IP in the database, that would be better. But on the flip side, tanasinn.info seems to be doing fine with it. --> | ||
1. Add the following to your LocalSettings.php: | 1. Add the following to your LocalSettings.php: |