Manual:$wgPutIPinRC

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Access: $wgPutIPinRC
Log IP addresses in the recentchanges table.
Introduced in version:1.3.0
Removed in version:still in use
Allowed values:(boolean)
Default value:true (1.6+)
false (1.3-1.5)

Details

Prescribes whether MediaWiki should log the IP addresses of its editors in recentchanges.rc_ip. Although there is no interface in the standard MediaWiki package for retrieving this information, it can be accessed using extensions; a database administrator can also run an SQL query to retrieve the IP addresses.

Current versions of the CheckUser extension do not rely on this setting. CheckUser stores its data in a separate cu_changes table.

Autoblock use it to automatically block the more recent IP used by a user who is blocked.

See also