Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] wikipedia access traces ?

2014-09-20 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the explanation. On moderate to high traffic pages, let's say with a minimum of 10 hits per minute across the entire time span studied, perhaps the requested data could be provided while still providing strong privacy protection. Toby might need to discuss this with WMF Legal. Pine On

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] wikipedia access traces ?

2014-09-20 Thread Pine W
A few more thoughts: * You probably don't need the full URLs of the content being accessed, so those could be anonymized and replaced with random identifiers to some degree, right? * Someone might be able to monitor the user's end of the transactions, such as by having university network logs

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] wikipedia access traces ?

2014-09-20 Thread Oliver Keyes
Given that the request logs aren't transparent about which cached version of a page is being provided I'm finding it pretty difficult to see how they'd help you answer interesting questions here :/. On 20 September 2014 04:02, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: A few more thoughts: * You