[BNM] Wikipedia - IP paranoia

[matt zb]

We've had a little telling off from Wikipedia this week:

"Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is
not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or
promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to
personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and
links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product..."

We all share the same IP address at LL, so in looking to see what they're on
about, I have discovered there is a complete record of every modification
anyone in our office has ever made to Wikipedia, which is publicly available
to anyone who knows our IP.

The link added was purely innocuous, and the warning probably had more to do
with WikiPedia's intention to become a link drain[*] than being in any way
"inappropriate". 

But now I am completely paranoid about how much of what we write on the web
can be tracked back to an IP address. For example, can an IP be associated
to message boards posts too? I'm almost scared to google it.

mzb

[* http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-01-22-n21.html ]