Re: disabling ip adress and talk function

I'm not going to debate the ethnicity I'm just going to say what
can/can't be done with MediaWiki and how one could do it.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:26:04 -0500, Rick DeNatale
<rick.denatale-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The last "person' to spam my wiki did register.  It's actually more
> annoying when they do register, since I needed to dig through my
> apache log files to track down an ip address to block. I figure that
> it's useless to block a spammer by name since they'll just re-register
> under a different one.  It would actually be nice if mediawiki would
> keep the ip address(es) used by 'registered' users as well. Perhaps
> only visible to sysops.

In LocalSettings.php:
$wgPutIPinRC = true;

This will place the IP in the rc_ip field in the recentchanges table.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure of how to access it from the UI.

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