On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: >> It looks like there are partial views for the tables (click_tracking and >> click_tracking_events) on the Toolserver, for what it's worth. >> > Oh wow, I had no idea those were there. I'm not entirely sure that's a > good idea. It's a partial view but it only suppresses the session_id > field. > > Anyway, I'll let the toolserver folks decide on the privacy concerns > around exposing the edit count fields (like I said, that can be > identifiable information in certain cases). This does mean anyone with > a toolserver account can do analysis on the data as it comes in, which > is a good thing cause it means less work for me :) > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
I asked about it in the #toolserver IRC channel and had this conversation with River: <sumanah> I have heard some discussion of a privacy implication around exposing edit count fields: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-August/thread.html#54729 It sounds as though the toolserver community should consider whether this needs to be changed? <felicity> sumanah: which message talks about edit counts? wm-de would need to decide on that, but personally i don't see a problem with it <felicity> it's just a pre-computed version of information that's trivially available from the database anyway <sumanah> felicity: I didn't totally follow it, but http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-August/054720.html and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-August/054730.html seem to have the gist <felicity> sumanah: the version of click_tracking exposed to users is redacted: http://p.tcx.org.uk/63 <felicity> sumanah: it was originally requested by Roan: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1012 so I assume WMF is okay with it I'm not personally interested in pushing forward on any investigation, consensus-building, etc. regarding this issue, but wanted to put this information out there in case someone else is. Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
