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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
