https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37626

--- Comment #8 from Trijnstel <[email protected]> 2012-08-13 23:10:15 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > With that said, I think MZ's initial comment here is not off base.  
> > Personally,
> > I'd be fine with truncating the data somehow, but I'm not the primary user 
> > of
> > that tool: checkusers and stewards are.  Particularly for smaller wikis, we
> > should retain the logs for some time, but I don't think ther'es a need to
> > retain them indefinitely.  
> 
> Truncation is one option. Anonymization of the IP address information is
> another option. I think that's what places such as Google do. Or just removing
> the IP checks from the log altogether after a certain period of time, right?
> And just keeping the checks of usernames? Though... maybe truncation is best.
> I'm not sure much good comes from keeping this data around indefinitely.
> 
> > I"m going to chat with LCA's lawyers and see where they fall on the 
> > question.
> 
> Any follow up on this?

Again, strongly against this. We need to know the IPs - and there isn't much
info left in the logs besides the IPs and accounts. If we lose these too we
can't perform our checks well anymore. I really hope this isn't going to
happen.

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