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You can keep personal data without consent for security and fraud detection. What Wikipedia does is perfectly compatible with GDPR.
Edit: case in point, Wikipedia is already subject to the GDPR, it's a very high profile website, and it hasn't been sued for violating it.
Except for those publicly visible sock-shaming and investigations pages, mark my words they're going to be their Achilles heels one day. I've already asked some GDPR lawyers about it a long time ago and they agreed with me on that.
Wikipedia has always been subject to EU laws regarding personal dignity rights, like the right to be forgotten for example. The GDPR is not even relevant for 99% of those cases, and they predate GDPR and even then web by decades. There have been court cases about it, and Wikipedia complies with court decisions. It's not an Achilles Heel it is the normal balancing act between the public's right to be informed and the individual's rights to a private life.
I'd take their answers over yours because they're a well-known lawyers group who is super-into privacy rights activism and they even are saying that they are compiling instances of so-called "troll pages" on German Wikipedia so that they can file a complaint to the relevant DPAs one day.
In this context I think you need to be mindful of the argument from ignorance fallacy; just because something has not happened or has not been proven either way, doesn't mean that it's not going to happen in the future.
No, you havent.
You're weird.