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AnonPrivacy Release status: stableCategory:Stable extensions
Implementation	User interfaceCategory:User interface extensions
Description	Hides the IPs of anonymous users to everyone but admins.
Author(s)	Sophivorustalk
Latest version	1.1 (2020-03-15)
MediaWiki	1.35+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
License	GNU General Public License 3.0
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Added rights anonprivacy
Hooks used HtmlPageLinkRendererEnd Category:HtmlPageLinkRendererEnd extensions
Quarterly downloads	9 (Ranked 87th)
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The AnonPrivacy extension hides the IPs of anonymous users to everyone but admins, in the recent changes, related changes, watchlists, page histories, etc. IPs can still be found via the API.

Limitations

If an anonymous user moves a page, their IP address will be shown even with anonprivacy turned on.

Any unblocked user who clicks the "Undo" button on an anonymous user can see the IP address of the unregistered user unless the edit can't be undone due to conflicting intermediate edits.

If you export the page history then import it to a different wiki or open the xml file, you can see the IP addresses.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted AnonPrivacy folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/AnonPrivacy
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'AnonPrivacy' );
  

• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

The extension introduces an extra user right called "anonprivacy". Any user with this right is able to see the IPs, while any user without it is not able to see them. Admins are given the right by default. To give the right to any other user groups, add the following to your LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['groupname'] = 'anonprivacy';

IPs can still be seen through the API via for example api.php?action=feedrecentchanges. Syndication feeds can be disabled by adding the following to the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

$wgFeed = false;

However, IPs will still visible through other API methods. Solving this issue should be a priority for future development. In the meantime, a workaround is to disable the API entirely by adding the following to the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

$wgEnableAPI = false;

Please notice that this feature is deprecated and was removed in MediaWiki 1.32.

See also

• Manual:Preventing access - To prevent anonymous edits
• IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation on Meta