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TIL in Saudi Arabia, a Wikipedia editor has been sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment just because of editing Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] the_trash_man@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Your IP address is shown publicly when you make edits on Wikipedia

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

What benefit is there for that to be publicly viewable?

[–] the_trash_man@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Probably helps to stop vandalism of pages.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Banning bad actors ip's. Or more horrifically, this.