On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:38 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. > > ... 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.
i'd highly appreciate this, many thanks tom! and thanks as well for reminding about policies, i suggested a task in the chapters association s task list to make clear(er) in the important policies if they should apply for the movement, and not only for the wmf: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Tasks rupert. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
