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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your IP address is shown publicly when you make edits on Wikipedia

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What benefit is there for that to be publicly viewable?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Probably helps to stop vandalism of pages.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Banning bad actors ip's. Or more horrifically, this.

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