[Mediawiki-l] Blocking users/deleting users/IP?

Fri Jan 7 00:22:05 UTC 2005

At 06:29 PM 1/6/2005 -0500, Lisa Jill wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links.
>I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how
>to find that information out from the wiki.

Also, I did a scan through the database tables, thinking "this ought to be 
tracked in MediaWiki someplace".  But it doesn't seem to me that MediaWiki 
tracks the IP addresses of logged-in users.  If you aren't logged in then 
it will record your IP address in place of your username, which is good, 
but not useful for getting IPs of logged-in people.

In the RecentChanges table there is an IP address field, but on my 
installation the column is empty of values.  Perhaps in the future it will 
hold IP addresses for all recent edits, and then you could easily see who 
is trashing your wiki.  But who knows?  (Brion Vibber--that's who!)

-Erik 