I can't think of anything offhand. You might want to run a database search to make sure none of those values in those user fields is available elsewhere on the database in cleartext, but otherwise, you should be fine.
> To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 22:51:38 +1000 > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] How to anonymise MW database? > > Hi all, > > Just as a safety net I'd like to publish copies of the databases > powering my MediaWiki installations, so that if I lose all my data and > backups, I might still be able to get something back (as well as > reassuring my users that their contributions won't be lost forever!) > > I don't want to publish the raw database dump because it contains > people's e-mail addresses and password hashes, but I'm thinking that > perhaps if I take a copy of the database and erase the values in those > tables, I might be able to export and publish the 'anonymised' copy. > I'd rather not omit the user table entirely, because if I do ever need > to restore the wiki from this copy I'll need it to associate the right > account with each edit. > > Does anyone know which fields contain sensitive data that I should > remove? I can see these obvious candidates: > > user.user_password > user.user_newpassword > user.user_email > user.user_token > user.user_email_token > > Are there any others that are potentially confidential and should not > be made public? > > Many thanks, > Adam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
