Thanks James. 

No UA data is recorded from any platform for non-edit actions like pageviews 
and watchlisting, even if an editor is logged in, right?

Pine



From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:36:01 -0700
Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile and CheckUser (Was [mobile-l] Wikipedia 
App User Agents)
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]; [email protected]

The mobile apps are definitely in the wild, my understanding (from some checks 
in the past and from the discussion in the other thread) was that it was just 
the 'normal' useragent for the phone with the addition of a WikipediaMobile 
identifier at the front (so that you could tell it was from the app). They 
aren't very common but I have seen some which I knew were app driven.


The reason this came up was that one of the discussions that came up in that 
other thread was to rewrite the user agent to be less unique which would make 
it harder for CUs to tell users apart (especially once they found out, which 
they often do and these discussions are on public lists). The compromise that 
Yuvi proposed was to send a 'special' user agent for checkuser so that it 
didn't lose the fingerprinting ability as much.


JamesJames AlexanderLegal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur



On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:27 PM, ENWP Pine <[email protected]> wrote:










I got the impression from this discussion that the mobile apps aren't 
currently in use so the CUs have had no experience working with them. It sounds 
like I was mistaken.

Toby, what UA data do CUs currently see from edits made through the mobile apps?

CUs, is the information that you're currently getting from edits from the new 
mobile apps a good balance the concerns raised previously in this discussion?



Pine

> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:36:16 -0700
> From: Toby Negrin <[email protected]>
> To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who


>       has an  interest in Wikipedia and analytics."
>       <[email protected]>
> Cc: mobile-l <[email protected]>, Oliver Keyes


>       <[email protected]>,  Yuvi Panda <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Analytics] [WikimediaMobile] Mobile and CheckUser (Was


>       [mobile-l] Wikipedia App User Agents)
> Message-ID:
>       <caajh0eyqpfdke3p6q5fxecone5yc7uss_vs9hcb5khoxz6-...@mail.gmail.com>


> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Hey folks -- we aren't considering changing any of the data that goes into
> checkuser. That tool will be unchanged.


> 
> This discussion only concerns backend logging EventLogging and page view
> analytics.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -Toby
> 
                                                                                
  



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