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"When an unregistered user edits Wikipedia, he or she is identified by his or her IP address. These IP addresses are translated to users' approximate geographic
by TimGremalm 4y ago
"When an unregistered user edits Wikipedia, he or she is identified by his or her IP address. These IP addresses are translated to users' approximate geographic location. Unregistered users only make a fraction of total edits -- only 15% of the contributions to English Wikipedia are from unregistered users. Edits by registered users do not have associated IP information, so the map actually represents only a small portion of the total edit activity on Wikipedia."
- kubanczyk 4y agos/unregistered/not logged in/ Registered users often don't bother with logging in.
- 3pt14159 4y agoI log in. Mostly for nostalgia, (I started the resilience wikipedia page and still regret doing it without an account!) but also for skipping the annoying pledge banners.
- petee 4y agoI'm not sure thats true since it's a policy violation (without proper disclosure) that is fairly regularly enforced when found
- archon1410 4y agonot really. logging out to do certain things is a violation, but simply editing logged out by itself is not a violation. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Legitimate_uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Legitim...
- petee 4y agoMy mistake, though as i understand its still frowned upon, further down WP:LOGOUT says a little why
- remram 4y agoI log in, mostly so my IP doesn't get put on blast in the log.
- howenterprisey 4y agoI wouldn't say that's a common practice.
- chronogram 4y agoI always log in to edit, then log out.
- prolyxis 4y agoI log in mostly for the custom CSS.