On 01.04.2011 14:28, Stephen Bain wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Brett Hillebrand > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Tools that allow profiling of individual user's activity (beyond what can >> easily be achieved directly on the public wiki sites) must only be applied >> with the respective user's consent (opt-in)." > > Well the policy is pretty vague (indeed, you have quoted the whole of it > there).
yes, it is vagues. because a precise policy would be twenty pages long, and still wouldn't cover all corner cases. So the policy is supposed to give a general idea, any corner cases get decided on a case by case basis. > What counts as profiling and what does not? And what "can easily be > achieved" using only the wiki? > > The editing overlap can be reproduced quite straightforwardly using > Special:Contributions and article history pages (or the API), perhaps > with the aid of a pencil and paper and the browser's search function > for the larger sets. There could be quite a bit of labour in that > though. Does that count as "easy"? No, that's not "easy". But the result is unlikely to give away much about the user's lifestyle beyond the information which pages they edit. And that information *is* easily available on-site already, we can expect people to expect this. As opposed to plotting the time of day they mostly edit, which isn't that hard to get from the site either, but gives much more (apparent) insight into a person's habits. -- daniel _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
