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Some of Wikipedia's pages on anonymity:

General links:

Rules[edit]

Privacy policy

See Wikipedia:Privacy policy, Wikipedia talk:Privacy policy, and m:Talk:Privacy policy

This is "an official policy approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. This policy may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored on local Wikimedia projects."

Summary: If you only read the Wikimedia project websites, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general. If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages and talk pages. Some limited exceptions are described in the main policy.

Blacklists

Currently, people using open proxies or otherwise on the SORBS blacklist can't create accounts or log in.

Checkuser Policy

See also: Editor's index: privacy

Guidelines[edit]

Guidelines related to anonymity and pseudonymity:

Essays[edit]

Research

Rejected guidelines

Historical use of shared accounts[edit]

At some point in 2003, there were role accounts on en:wp and on fr:wp. As of late 2005, they became considered harmful, and were discontinued by policy on most wikis.

Technical implementations[edit]

Category