Thread:Project:Support desk/Anonymous page access/reply (3)

Yeah, in some way. I thought you wanted to log no identifying information at all. But now that you say it would be OK to log them, they should only be hidden, I would say there are ways and means to more or less achieve this.

100% safety is never possible. There will be ways to get around the following ideas and to get some information anyway:

Information on who created a revision of a page are visible at the following places:
 * In the pages history: index.php?title=SuggestionBox&action=history.
 * On the Special:RecentChanges page.
 * Links to the posts are also shown on the contribution pages of these IPs: Special:Contributions/. If it is possible to more or less guess the users' IP addresses (e.g. because you know they will all come from your company's network with a fixed range of possibe IPs), you will be able to find the IP there as well.
 * Finally there is the API: More or less anything you can view from the webpage also is available from the API:
 * See API:Recentchanges for links to recent changes.
 * Again if you know or can guess the IP addresses, you can find information in the Usercontribs API. See API:Usercontribs.
 * With the properties API you can get information about single revisions/revisions of pages, e.g. who created a particular revision. Although API:Properties may sound differently this in fact does also include the IP address.

All these pages might be reachable with other URLs as well, e.g. if you are using short URLs.

Access to all these pages would then have to be blocked; for the API see API:Restricting_API_usage.

As you can see there are a plenty of pages, where possibly identifying information can be found - and these are only the ones I could think of right now. I am pretty sure that there are a variety of other places as well. Now that I wrote this I am pretty sure that what you want just is not possible with MediaWiki.