https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838
--- Comment #21 from Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> 2012-06-10 21:00:45 UTC --- (In reply to comment #20) > > Why not? > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Details_of_data_retention Like I said, just disable storage of IP addresses when logging authentication attempts and it will comply completely with WMF Privacy Policy. > > Overall, it is a much more theoretically reliable and secure idea to utilize > > MW's existing logging functionality to store authentication requests and > > their > > results rather then to cache them in memory pending the user's next visit. > > If a > > user doesn't log into Wikipedia for a week, and the threshold for email is > > also > > a week, then that memcached key is there for a whole seven days, which is > > generally not what memcached is used for (or at least not what I use it > > for). > > memcached at WMF is assumed to never lose entries due to memory pressure. > The use of that less-reliable method is on purpose :) I understand, but why does user_newtalk exist then? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
