How would you anonymize data? This is very difficult. If a user is pseudonomized with a random identifier it is not difficult to triangularize the user. This is particular the case if the user is a Wikipedian: The user will often read his/her own user talk page and the pages s/he edits.
Readings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy#Netflix_Prize best regards Finn Årup Nielsen Den 29-12-2014 kl. 04:53 skrev Ditty Mathew: > The exact user information is not needed. The anonymized data is enough. > What exactly we need is the navigation path of Wikipedia readers. > > with regards > > Ditty > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Afraid not. First, we do not have some of those datapoints; we do > not currently have unique user IDs. And, second, it would be a > tremendous ethical violation for us to release that data that we > /do/ have (IP addresses, for example). > > On 28 December 2014 at 21:00, Ditty Mathew <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is the reader's click log data(should contain user id/ip, > article title, timestamp) is available for Wikipedia. > > with regards > > Ditty > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
