https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25602
--- Comment #10 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #9) > (In reply to comment #8) >> This bug covers far more than two fields. > > For the user table we are talking about two fields. No, as I understand it, we operate on a principle of least restriction. Every field that can be safely exposed should be. In the user table, there's no reason to not expose user_id, user_name, user_editcount, and user_registration, as far as I can tell. > If folks want other partial tables, they should request them in separate > bugs. Okay, I'll re-purpose this bug to focus specifically on the user table and will file separate bugs for the other tables. > With a script doing the work, as long as it respects maxlag, who cares? Just > fire it up, go do other things, and come back at some point to see when it's > done. Respectfully, this doesn't make any sense. User IDs and user names are not some minor detail. Why would we provide dumps of every other table (many of which are actually useless) and then leave out the user table, which is one of the most important tables? That doesn't make sense. > If you are concerned about multiple users doing this same set of requests > instead of a single producer providing the list for download, I can see that > as a legitimate complaint. But that too would be a different bug: it would > be nice if users had a space that they could put data sets that they > generate, for re-use by others. I think that could be managed by interested > users off-site though, without WMF intervention. Again, this misses the point. Who or what is served by requiring every individual re-user to generate (or re-generate) this data themselves through time-consuming API queries? The issue surrounding hidden user names is a red herring, in my mind. It makes absolutely no sense to keep data in the database that shouldn't be there. If there are inappropriate user names, they should be changed. Leaving them in the user table indefinitely _guarantees_ that they'll eventually be exposed. (Surely there's a law that covers this.) We should take out the trash. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
