I don't really see how that breaks any privacy, in fact it just tell you since when you are using the channel. I don't think it breaks the privacy more than similar date on wikipedia (when you create account there is a log for that)
If someone explain to me what is wrong on that, I will remove it. The reason why mw-bot wasn't logging JOIN and PART events was to protect users from leaking their hostname / IP which is part of that On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > You might want to remove the "Active since" section, MWBot was set to > not record channel joins and quiets in the logs for a user privacy > point of view (from what I could find and read), this seems to be > hitting on that area. (And yes, I know a user could run a anaylais of > their own on the log lines to find something quasi similar) > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just wanted to announce that based on request from one community >> member I created a new feature in wm-bot, which may appear to be >> unneeded on first sight, but when I was thinking of that, it's not >> really so stupid. It collects various informations about user activity >> in channel (in xml) and allow them to be rendered in some way. In this >> moment I only display number of messages for each user, for example: >> >> http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/db/%23wikimedia-labs.htm (scroll to bottom) >> >> This is happening only in selected channels as experiment, but I >> believe that it could motivate people to be more active and therefore >> more helpful in these help channels. Also it would let us see how much >> bots are active compared to people. (For example in #mediawiki.htm you >> can see that most active users are bots) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
