Getting ready

We will examine the edits made to the Web scraping page in Wikipedia. This page is available at:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping. The following shows a small part of this page:

The view history tab

Note View history in the upper-right. Clicking on that link gives you access to the history for the edits:

Inspecting an IP address

I've scrolled this down a little bit to highlight an anonymous edit.  Note that we can identify these anonymous edit entries using the mw-userling mw-anonuserlink class in the source.

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