User:Primefac/IP RFC Drafting

Spitball page for drafting an RFC about disallowing IP editing per ptWiki.

The question
Should the English Wikipedia disallow IP editing?

Background and explanation
TBC

Random braindump from Firefly

 * Use ptwiki data to inform argument - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Editing_Restriction_Study/Portuguese_Wikipedia
 * Also fawiki - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Editing_Restriction_Study#Farsi_Wikipedia_2
 * Perhaps look at proportion of IP edits that remain active?
 * Some data around "time taken to deal with IP vandalism/DE"?
 * Re anonymity - you're far more anonymous as "randomuser123" than an IP
 * Probably more CheckUser workload as a result of doing this - IMO an acceptable tradeoff, but something to keep in mind.

Discussion
Starting this off to get this rolling, as I suspect the more clear a benefit we can provide the more likely it will be to pass. The top two sections will be adjusted/amended as necessary so old versions might be referenced but not exist above. Maybe we'll hat old versions... who knows. Anywho, thoughts and opinions welcomed. Primefac (talk) 15:19, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I would point out to people that IP masking is coming and this is a much more elegant solution than the temp usernames the WMF is proposing --Guerillero Parlez Moi 10:30, 23 April 2023 (UTC)