Thanks Madhu -- it's great to see the analytics team working proactively on things like this.
-Toby On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Madhumitha Viswanathan < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The analytics team, in an effort to collect sensitive data less, plans to > drop the clientIP field from the EventCapsule( > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:EventCapsule), which is the > wrapper for all events flowing into Eventlogging (Currently IPs and User > Agents get purged after the 90 days mark). The field was originally meant > only for debugging, but has served some research usecases. Most of these > cases have been wrapped up at this point. It has also been used as a proxy > to count number of devices visiting sites like our blog - and since IP's > are not a good measure of that anyway - we plan to move such cases to use > Piwik. > > The rollout of the change will happen in stages (Drop clientIPs first on > the EL end, then the EventCapsule in meta, and finally on the VarnishKafka > end). It should be a clean deployment and there's no scheduled downtime - > EL will keep working as is. What does change? ClientIP's will start being > set as NULL in your mysql tables. If you update the Eventlogging schema you > maintain - causing new tables to be created, the new tables will not have > the clientIp field in them. The change is planned to be rolled out the week > of 11th or 18th March '16, pending the completion of data collection for > the ongoing QuickSurveys based research work. > > Let us know if you have any questions/concerns on the list or on > #wikimedia-analytics. The related phab ticket is here - > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128407. > > Thanks, > Madhu Viswanathan > Software Engineer, Analytics > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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