https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12742
--- Comment #4 from Bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> 2011-02-09 19:15:29 UTC --- >Based on some Google research I did in response to your >comment, I found that the Wikimedia Foundation already decided last year to get >some better analytics tools. My main concern was giving out such data to everyone who could potentially want it. Bot developers are a wide group of people, of varying levels of competency. I wouldn't really want such a group to have access to such data unless it was very well anonimized. Such information could be sensitive. Say someone browsed through various articles on Wikipedia about sexual topics, followed by a browse through the commons categories for sexual images (Assuming such categories still exist after the recent controversies that i havn't really been following) followed by the user visiting his own userpage (so one can identify who it is. If user pages aren't listed, perhaps followed by him accidently making a typo and going to uer:<user name>/ whatever). That might be something that the user would not want to be published. Anyways, I'm all for better analyitic tools in general (I love the page stats), but we also have to be careful. Even anonoymized data can be harmful to release (for example [[AOL search data scandal]]) if not done carefully. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
