Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal
information through edit links. I won't edit articles with
articleFeedbackv5_ct_token= ids in their URLs, as has become the case
with the English Wikipedia
On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal
information through edit links. I won't edit articles with
articleFeedbackv5_ct_token= ids in
Thomas Dalton, 04/02/2012 15:05:
On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofiloteofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal
information through edit links. I won't edit articles with
Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
See http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html
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Correct if I'm wrong (And i'm probably wrong) but that would work for every
single site if approved, so why strike only Wikipedia? I would stop use
internet altogether. :P
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*Béria Lima*
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FWIW, I know our devs are not at all keen to keep personal data even sitting
around - even checkuser data is cleared after six months, I think. What is the
current policy?
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3 months David. CheckUser data clear in 3 months.
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FWIW, I know our devs are not at all keen to keep personal data even
sitting around - even checkuser data is cleared after six months, I
think. What is the current policy?
- d.
About right. Keeping personal data creates disclosure problems with
children under 13.
Fred
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From: dger...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:46:58
To: Béria Limaberial...@gmail.com
Reply-To: dger...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data
through edit links
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A US law would affect only US providers; however the National Security
Agency is already authorized to monitor all other internet traffic, and
other communications traffic, in the world. They have complex search
algorithms that single out individual messages based on their security
priorities.
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-Original Message-
From: dger...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:46:58
To: Béria Limaberial...@gmail.com
Reply-To: dger...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal
data through edit links
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 February 2012 00:31, Daniel Mietchen
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.comwrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Open_Knowledge_Foundation_Germany/Open_Access_Catalogue/OA_publishers/DOI_prefixes_entirely_OA
Fred Bauder wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
3 months I can live with :-) Can someone from WMF just confirm what data
is kept for how long?
The exact time is confidential.
Err, no, I don't think so. It's not defined in the files at
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/, which means it should be using
MZ is correct: 3 months is the purge for Checkuser data.
As to the rest of it, Diederick van Liere, our resident guru of data, will
be checking into this, and will confirm back when we know exactly wht is
intended by the devs for that data. I will say that generally speaking,
the Foundation
you mean, I'm correct, because I'm the one who said 3 months ;)
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construir esse sonho.
Beria, MZ, and anyone else who said three months is correct.
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On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote:
Also it is becoming uncomfortable to edit section 0 of an article. On
a normal wiki article, to edit section 0, one copy-pastes the edit
link of section 1 and changes 1 into 0. This is no longer possible
in a reliable enough way,
(This may not be 100% accurate; the person who knows most about this is
on vacation, but I'll try to explain to the best of my understanding.)
Those weird URLs are part of a clicktracking process. It's a test to
see how people go about editing the page *most often* (by section, or by
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Daniel Mietchen
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 February 2012 00:31, Daniel Mietchen
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.comwrote:
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem and potential solution are explained here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:OA-ness
Thanks - I took one of the workarounds you pointed to, so
Hi Brandon, thanks for the explanation, but wouldn't it be easier to just
analyse edit summaries? If you edit by section the edit summary defaults to
start with the section heading...
Were SpielChequers
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Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:51:49 -0800
From: Brandon Harris
I'm not sure why this couldn't be done if that were all that is being
measured. I suspect there's other behaviors being tracked.
As I said, I'm not the person who knows most about this, so you have to
take what I am saying with a grain of salt.
On 2/4/12 5:21 PM, WereSpielChequers
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