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Although cool, this is something with a limited lifespan -- Wikipedia actually plans to break the ability to do this by masking IPs even for anonymous users. See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancem...

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Probably for the best. After removing vandalism from the page of a prominent political figure (not a president, just someone who was the focus of the news), someone posted my approximate location to the discussion page and accused me of "sock-puppetry" (for removing an effort to link said official's views to a fictional cult from a major TV show). They also tried to use it as proof that someone from one of the big 2 US political parties was editing the page, since I was near the political party's headquarters.

Honestly I'm surprised Wikipedia hasn't had a case like Reddit's harassment of innocent people after the Boston Marathon Bombings, given how tribal and jingoistic the most-active editors are.

Cannot blame them to be honest, many countries outside the US have privacy laws considering IP address to be personal information (notably EU's GDPR of course but also Canada's amended PIPEDA and Brazil's LGPD), and it's clear that Wikimedia really wants to steer clear of any controversies there.

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