Hi Dan, Agreed, I think it makes sense to consider a subject-specific request for pages that are within the scope of epidemiology, such as influenza, where we have reason to think that there could be public health benefits in analyzing the data and there are reasonable safeguards to protect user anonymity.
A request for 1 month of the private data requested here, which appears to be for all pages on all projects, is far too broadly scoped. Also, in general, I my instinct would be to deny external requests for WMF private data for purposes of performance testing. It seems to me that the risks far outweigh the benefits to Wikimedia, and that processing requests like these would be a suboptimal use of WMF staff time. Pine On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]> wrote: > Pine, there are actually two separate requests and they shouldn't be > mixed. The performance-related one is research as far as I understand, and > the other one we have no details yet. I welcome a public discussion of > either, and of course would respect any opinions held by the analytics > community at large. We have every intention to be good stewards of this > data and for what it's worth, I'm very skeptical of allowing access to > private data, unless for obviously beneficial purposes like flu > forecasting, etc. > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd appreciate a clarification about the purpose of this request if >> Wikimedia private data is involved. If I am understanding correctly, the >> purpose of this request is for access to Wikimedia private data for >> assistsnce with 3rd party performance testing. If that is the case, I >> believe that the access request for private should simply be denied. >> >> Pine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >
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