We don't need anonymous notes

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@InsertUser

Wikipedia has always had a warning that editing while logged out will publish your IP and they seem to be able to make use of this for less tech savvy trolls.

To be clear: I mean for new comments, not retroactively showing an IP when the user wasn’t warned ahead of time.

Wikipedia has long warned logged-out users about their IP address being exposed, but apparently this isn’t enough to be compliant:

@Minh_Nguyen

Wikimedia projects have historically logged IP addresses publicly as a form of accountability and a countermeasure against abuse. However, the GDPR and other legal changes are forcing Wikimedia to replace raw IP addresses with a system of temporary account names (not unlike the IDs that OSM assigns to deleted users) for public display. Certain user groups responsible for countervandalism can opt into accessing raw IP addresses going forward, which would be less restrictive than the group of OSM sysadmins who currently have access to server logs.