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This is a non-story.
Wikipedia is doing what's necessary to protect their users by refusing to divulge personal information without a court order, and Mr. Livingston is doing what's necessary to protect his reputation (and by extension his career as an actor) by obtaining the court order.
Wikipedia logs IP addresses for every edit made to the site. Once Mr. Livingston's lawyers have received that, the next step I believe is to file the lawsuit for libel and request a subpoena of the ISP that owns the address for the user's personal information. How far it goes from there depends on when the last edit is made, how far back the ISP keeps logs for, and whether or not the subpoena is granted. This is my understanding of how it works from observing similar cases in the past, though I'm not a lawyer and can't claim any expertise.
Up to now all parties are acting exactly as expected, and nobody has done anything that can be considered in any way unethical.
Let me know if something actually interesting happens.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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