| Revision as of 23:17, 5 September 2026 by OpenWiki (Imported from the OpenWiki starter corpus) | Revision as of 00:19, 6 September 2026 by OpenWiki (Updated from the starter corpus) | ||
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| An IP address is personal information in many jurisdictions, so it is worth being exact about what happens to it here: | An IP address is personal information in many jurisdictions, so it is worth being exact about what happens to it here: | ||
| − | * It is recorded '''only''' for discussion messages posted without an account. Page edits record no address at all | + | * It is recorded '''only''' for discussion messages posted without an account. Page edits record no address at all – they are attributed to ''Anonymous'' and nothing else. |
| * It is shown to everybody who can read the message, and it stays there as long as the message does. | * It is shown to everybody who can read the message, and it stays there as long as the message does. | ||
| * '''Logging in avoids it entirely.''' A message posted from an account records the account name and no address. | * '''Logging in avoids it entirely.''' A message posted from an account records the account name and no address. | ||
| − | * An administrator running this site can set <code>OPENWIKI_SHOW_ANON_IP=0</code>, which keeps messages tied to their | + | * An administrator running this site can set <code>OPENWIKI_SHOW_ANON_IP=0</code>, which keeps messages tied to their origin, so you can still edit your own, but publishes a short pseudonym such as <code>#4b7c</code> instead of the address itself. |
| If you are running OpenWiki publicly rather than for yourself, treat that setting as a real decision: publishing addresses is long-standing wiki practice, but it exposes readers who did not think about it, and data-protection law in several countries expects you to have a reason for it and to say so plainly. | If you are running OpenWiki publicly rather than for yourself, treat that setting as a real decision: publishing addresses is long-standing wiki practice, but it exposes readers who did not think about it, and data-protection law in several countries expects you to have a reason for it and to say so plainly. | ||
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| == Anonymous edits == | == Anonymous edits == | ||
| − | Editing does not require an account. An edit made without being logged in is credited to | + | Editing does not require an account. An edit made without being logged in is credited to '''Anonymous''', always that exact name, with nothing recorded that would distinguish one anonymous editor from another. |
| == Names in page histories == | == Names in page histories == | ||
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