If we are looking at refactoring code then we should look at eventually moving to wikidata for language links.
Joe On Feb 9, 2013 10:39 PM, "Tom Morris" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 20:08, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 9 February 2013 18:39, Tom Morris <[email protected] (mailto: > [email protected])> wrote: > > > Now this has been transferred to Wikimedia UK, would it be possible to > > > remove the access logging on QRpedia to ensure it complies with both > the > > > letter and spirit of the WMF privacy policy. > > > > > > Is it possible to do that and retain the aggregated, anonymised > > statistics which GLAM institutions and others deploying QRpedia find > > useful? These may be analogous to Wikipedias page view stats. > > > > That seems highly reasonable. The current issue is that the QRpedia > database has a complete log of which IPs looked up which pages and when. > > (Which is fine, I'm not blaming Roger or Terence. That's a perfectly > reasonable thing to do with something you are starting. This isn't a > security hole or a privacy intrusion, it's a standard thing anyone would do > when building a project like this. But now it has reached a point of > maturity and is being taken under the wing of WMUK, we need to ensure that > it is compliant with the expectations of Wikimedia users.) > > We need to anonymise the access data, aggregate it and then delete the > non-anonymised, non-aggregated data. I'm happy to fling code around and > figure out a way to do this. I've had a look at the existing code and it's > easy enough to understand. We could probably do with refactoring some of > the code too. > > I'd suggest that it would be best for WMUK to adhere completely with the > Foundation's privacy policy (mentally substitute "chapter" and "WMUK" in > the relevant places) even if the chapter is not formally bound by the > Foundation policy (I'm not a movement policy wonk, I don't know). In > addition, not holding on to access logs but only aggregate, anonymised data > means that we minimise the potential for problems under the Data Protection > Act or wider European data privacy law. > > I'd suggest that we resolve these issues as soon as possible. The QRpedia > transfer was rather a slow process, it'd be nice if now that the transfer > has been agreed, we can make sure that we resolve these kinds of issues in > the next week or so (I rather prefer fixing issues when they exist only in > my head rather than when people are shouting like maniacs). As I said, I'm > happy to provide patches and code review in the next few days. > > WMUK staff/trustees: are there any plans for transferring the source code > over to Wikimedia infrastructure (Gerrit etc.)? > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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