Hi Dario, Reid, This seems sensible enough and proposal #3 is clearly the better approach. An explicit opt-in opt-out mechanism would not be worth the effort to build and would become yet another ignored preferences setting after a few weeks...
A couple of thoughts: * I understand the reasoning for not using do-not-track headers (#4); however, it feels a bit odd to say "they probably don't mean us" and skip them... I can almost guarantee you'll have at least one person making a vocal fuss about not being able to opt-out without an account. If we were to honour these headers, would it make a significant change to the amount of data available? Would it likely skew it any more than leaving off logged-in users? * Option 3 does releases one further piece of information over and above those listed - an approximate ratio of logged in versus non-logged-in pageviews for a page. I cannot see any particular problem with doing this (and I can think of a couple of fun things to use it for) but it's probably worth being aware. Andrew. On 13 January 2015 at 07:26, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m sharing a proposal that Reid Priedhorsky and his collaborators at Los > Alamos National Laboratory recently submitted to the Wikimedia Analytics Team > aimed at producing privacy-preserving geo-aggregates of Wikipedia pageview > data dumps and making them available to the public and the research > community. [1] > > Reid and his team spearheaded the use of the public Wikipedia pageview dumps > to monitor and forecast the spread of influenza and other diseases, using > language as a proxy for location. This proposal describes an aggregation > strategy adding a geographical dimension to the existing dumps. > > Feedback on the proposal is welcome on the lists or the project talk page on > Meta [3] > > Dario > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Geo-aggregation_of_Wikipedia_pageviews > [2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003892 > [3] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Geo-aggregation_of_Wikipedia_pageviews > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
