Wikipedia:Anonymity

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This is a work in progress. Please help complete this page by adding links to policy and discussions.

Some of Wikipedia's pages on anonymity:

General links:

• Wikipedia talk:Talk page/Anonymous talk pages proposal
• Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit (not functional since early 2005; see Bugzilla #3539 for an automated idea)

Contents 1 Rules 1.1 Privacy policy 1.2 Blacklists 1.3 Checkuser Policy 2 Guidelines 2.1 Rejected guidelines 3 Historical use of shared accounts 4 Technical implementations

[edit] Rules

[edit] Privacy policy

see Wikipedia:Privacy policy, Wikipedia talk:Privacy policy, and m:Talk:Privacy policy

[edit] Blacklists

Currently, people using open proxies or otherwise on the SORBS blacklist can't create accounts or log in.

[edit] Checkuser Policy

• See the m:CheckUser Policy/Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser

[edit] Guidelines

See for instance these guidelines:

• Wikipedia:Welcome anonymous editing
• Wikipedia:Accountability.
• Wikipedia:Account deletion and the Right to vanish

[edit] Rejected guidelines

• Wikipedia:Editors should be logged in users

[edit] Historical use of shared accounts

At some point in 2003, there were role accounts on en:wp and on fr:wp. They are currently (as of late 2005) considered harmful.

[edit] Technical implementations

• Bugzilla #550 - blocking IPs without affecting formerly-created accounts (long discussion; should be combined with a throttle on # of account creations per IP per [day])