Las cuentas temporales para editores no registrados son un nuevo tipo de cuentas de usuario.
En las wikis donde se habilitaron las cuentas temporales, las direcciones IP de los editores no registrados no son visibles al público.
Sólo aquellos que combaten el spam, el vandalismo, el acoso y la desinformación tienen acceso a las direcciones IP.
Actualmente, cualquiera puede editar wikis de Wikimedia sin tener una cuenta de Wikimedia o sin iniciar sesión.
MediaWiki, el software detrás de los proyectos de Wikimedia, registrará y publicará su dirección IP en su registro público si edita sin iniciar sesión en su cuenta.
Cualquiera que busque su dirección IP la encontrará.
Los proyectos de Wikimedia tienen una buena razón para almacenar y publicar direcciones IP: desempeñan un papel fundamental para evitar el vandalismo y el acoso en nuestras wikis.
Sin embargo, tu dirección IP puede indicar desde dónde estás editando y puede usarse para identificarte a ti o a tu dispositivo.
Esto es especialmente preocupante si estás editando desde un territorio donde nuestras wikis se consideran controvertidas.
La publicación de tu dirección IP puede permitir que otros te localicen.
In more extreme cases, cybercriminals may also have opportunities to overwhelm or render networks unusable with Denial of Service attacks owing to the publication of IP addresses on wikis.
Con los cambios en las leyes y estándares de privacidad (p.e., el Reglamento General de Protección de Datos y la conversación global sobre privacidad que éste inició), el equipo legal de la Fundación Wikimedia ha decidido proteger la privacidad de los usuarios ocultando las direcciones IP del público en general.
Sin embargo, continuaremos dando acceso a los usuarios que necesitan verlas para proteger las wikis.
Somos conscientes de que este cambio afectará los flujos de trabajo antiabuso actuales.
Estamos comprometidos a desarrollar herramientas o mantener el acceso a herramientas que puedan identificar y bloquear vándalos, títeres, editores con conflictos de interés y otros malos actores después de que se enmascaren las IP.
: Deployment on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, and our plans for next months
Recent deployments – in the latter half of June, we rolled out temporary accounts on MediaWiki.org and 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias including French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and more. You will find the full list of wikis temporary accounts are deployed to in the FAQ. Heartfelt thanks to all volunteers who helped in deployment, whether by updating AbuseFilter, translating the interface, answering questions from other community members, writing and translating documentation, creating new tools, and more! Our gratitude goes to Albertoleoncio, DerHexer, Dragoniez, Ellywa, Hide on Rosé, Jules*, Johannnes89, Martin Urbanec, Matěj Suchánek, Msz2001, Neriah, NicoScribe, Titore, VZP10224, Ykhwong, *Youngjin, and many more.
Impact of the previous deployments – in a recent analysis, we found that temporary accounts did not pose any significant changes on pilot wikis. The only notable change was a shift from IP-based blocking to temporary account-based blocking on our first set of pilot wikis. You may monitor this dashboard to track changes from temporary accounts on projects where we are already deployed.
New documentation pages – you may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts. On the latter, you will find a short new video explaining how to edit using a temporary account. We will also create at least one more for users with extended rights, moderating temporary account activity.
Meetings with communities – in the past weeks, we met with a few communities: South Asian, French Wikipedia patrollers, and Japanese Wikipedia administrators. These meetings were helpful for the community members as well as the team to plan our future work. If your community would also like to meet with us, please message Sheila.
Work in the coming weeks
Our goal for this phase is to identify issues which may only surface with large-scale use of temporary accounts. We are delighted to share that this work is progressing as planned. You may subscribe to the task T395134, "Analyzing the roll-out of temp accounts on major pilots as it impacts anti-abuse work".
Do let Claudia know if temporary accounts significantly interfered with your ability to deter bad behavior, or helped you stop unwanted behavior from happening, or eased your communication with a logged-out user.
We have also received a lot of feedback and ideas for improvements on the project talk page. We are documenting and prioritizing the next set of work based on this feedback. There are a number of Phabricator tickets we have created since the deployment. You can see them on this board.
Plans for the coming months – the final deployment on all remaining wikis is planned for September. We are considering options to limit the scope of that phase by rolling out on some wikis sooner. Please write to Szymon if your community is interested in having temporary accounts earlier (July or August) – we will gladly include your wiki in these plans.
Declaraciones del departamento legal de la Fundación Wikimedia
