On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>wrote:

> Andrew Garrett schrieb:
> > On 17/06/2009, at 2:26 PM, John Doe wrote:
> >> I have access to the toolserver and rcip is not available. please note
> >> that the chechuser table is created by an extension and not by
> >> mediawiki thus you cannot depend on extensions that my or may not be
> >> insalled on all wikis. it may be that way on MWF wikis bit mediawiki
> >> is not just used on MWF wikis. what you want done cannot be done
> >> untill CU is merged into the trunk
> >
> > As Daniel explained, the proposal is to disable the functionality
> > except for wikis with an extension providing the past-IP data
> > installed. On these wikis, the data would be provided by means of a
> > hook.
>
> Yep. But it's a bit painful... hmpf.
>
> > Of course, this is pointless if you can filter out rc_ip with a view
> > on the toolserver...
>
> No - the problem is, if it is on the toolserver at all, wmde might be sued
> into
> revealing it. So it would be nice to not copy it there. Hiding it from
> *users*
> is not the issue, we have been doing that for years.
>

If the current concern is the toolserver, and the toolserver never actually
uses this info, shouldn't it be possible to set up a process that routinely
wiped out those records?  Not an ideal solution perhaps, but the contortions
you seem to be suggesting for the core don't strike me as ideal either.

-Robert Rohde
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