On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]> wrote: > Logs cannot be read by wikipedia owners or us government because they don't > exist. There aren't any raw logs?
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Each web server, of which the WMF has a few, collects details on the > behaviour of IPs, in logs. Those logs can be and probably have been > requested by > certain government officials, most likely for the purpose of tracking down > who is behind a certain "Bad" posting to a BLP. Presumably they would usually just use CheckUser data for that. On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still not clear why we would want to know the IP exactly for analytical > purposes. Some intrepid programmer could write a program which would > simply collect detailed analysis of a person's in-world behaviour and call > them > "Bob992" instead of 13.42.204.192 or whatever. Making the information > packets anonymous. That would still allow any sort of analysis the Tatars > want to > make, and not reveal any private information. It's a bit more complicated than that. Sometimes anonymous isn't anonymous enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
