It’s important for it to be public, otherwise bad actors can far too easily destroy the entire platform. Wikipedia is too big, and smart to privatize editors. While it sucks really bad that this happened to this poor guy, the alternative could doom Wikipedia.
The real evil here is Saudi Arabia (they are the ones that pursued him correct? It’s been a few months I forgot.)
Edit: it was, he was an admin of Saudi Arabia Wikipedia, and they blamed him for some bs. There was no hiding his editing regardless, he was the administrator sadly. Blame the country.
[…] It’s important for it to be public, otherwise bad actors can far too easily destroy the entire platform. […]
Okay, but, again, why does it need to be public? What use is there for the IP to be publicly visible to anyone except the moderators/admins? What can an average user do with that information in the context of editing/improving the content on Wikipedia?
Your IP address is shown publicly when you make edits on Wikipedia
What benefit is there for that to be publicly viewable?
Probably helps to stop vandalism of pages.
How so? Wouldn’t that only be relevant for the admin/moderator? I’m specifically wondering why it’s publicly viewable.
Banning bad actors ip’s. Or more horrifically, this.
Wouldn’t that only be relevant for an admin/moderator? Why does it need to be publicly viewable?
Took a two month nap?
It’s important for it to be public, otherwise bad actors can far too easily destroy the entire platform. Wikipedia is too big, and smart to privatize editors. While it sucks really bad that this happened to this poor guy, the alternative could doom Wikipedia.
The real evil here is Saudi Arabia (they are the ones that pursued him correct? It’s been a few months I forgot.)
Edit: it was, he was an admin of Saudi Arabia Wikipedia, and they blamed him for some bs. There was no hiding his editing regardless, he was the administrator sadly. Blame the country.
Okay, but, again, why does it need to be public? What use is there for the IP to be publicly visible to anyone except the moderators/admins? What can an average user do with that information in the context of editing/improving the content on Wikipedia?
I’m not sure that’s a “benefit”…