https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37626
--- Comment #8 from Trijnstel <[email protected]> 2012-08-13 23:10:15 UTC --- (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. -- 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
