Policy talk:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy

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age restrictions

Most other privacy-sensitive privileges come with age restrictions. This one does not seem to. Is this correctly understood, or is it implied somewhere? Effeietsanders 14:49, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Hey @Effeietsanders. There are no age restrictions for TAIVs. I'll ask my colleagues from Legal if they have considered this, although I'm guessing that because there's no age restriction for the admin rights either, this is an acceptable tradeoff. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 22:09, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

No reason for age restrictions in any case. Wargo (talk) 14:33, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Conflict in agreements

Various meta tools are insisting that I must sign the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy, even though I am a signatory to the ANPDP as an enwiki checkuser and should not need to (nor I think can I) sign the redundant policy. Is there something else I need to do to fix this? Ivanvector (talk) 21:27, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Never mind, I misclicked. Ivanvector (talk) 21:32, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Question on acceptable circumstances for checking TA IP

I am considering requesting TAIV rights on EN, but I wanted to be sure on the acceptability of checking IPs under certain circumstances. Mainly, if a TA is showing editing patterns often associated with long-term abuse, but not necessarily a particular LTA case. The main one that comes to mind is an account with only a short editing history making disruptive edits while demonstrating knowledge of Wikipedia policies and procedures that would not be expected from a new editor. TornadoLGS (talk) 04:39, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

If the account does bad things and you suspect there are more I think you can use this feature. In case you suggested these may be also named accounts so it may require to consult CUs if you know who it is and was blocked. Wargo (talk) 14:40, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Contributions

To minimise display of IP there could be idea to modify IPContribtions to take Temporary User name without knowing or displaying (URL) IP itself.

Displaying contributions of releated TAs without displaying IP and IP infos is under this policy? Wargo (talk) 14:38, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

There is something wrong with the translating mark

I believe that the translating mark at <!--T:88--> should be like "<tvar name="4">ca{{@}}wikimedia.org</tvar>," not "<tvar name="4">ca{{@}}wikimedia.org,</tvar>" 臺灣象象 (talk) 10:09, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

@臺灣象象: You are correct, I have made that fix. Thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 18:33, 1 April 2026 (UTC)