Thread:Project:Support desk/Possible to insert current IP in an article?/reply (3)

Thanks,  is my work-around for now. This works (of course only) as long as nobody is logged in on a certain computer and has checked off "keep logged in".

But, by the way, regarding there are variables like  and so on &mdash; and that Mediawiki isn't that young and has a lot of experiences built in &mdash; would there be a special reason not to implement a variable for retrieving an IP? Maybe a security thing?