Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3026053-20130621001540/@comment-3335785-20130621233406

I'm waiting to see the expected blog post on monday,but I doubt this can be put down to Wikia collecting and storing IP addresses as this would appear to be part of core MediaWiki - having contributions linked to accounts/IP addresses. Is there any difference on how wikimedia or other wiki hosts are handling this?

It's not as if there's an option to remove someone's contributions, unless discovered underage IPs are assigned an account named with an arbitrary string of numbers, likely very hard to implement and can also be circumvented through checkuser. Is going to be any review of who has access in terms of local wiki sysops having the tool? Checkuser always carried legal ramifications, but this would appear to add an extra facet to the potential problems the tool brings.

How will this affect wikis with broader subjects, like central, answers, lyricwiki, etc? They might not be specifically targeted towards those under 13, but the subject matter is so broad (or non-existant) that it's not unlikely to have several underage IPs.