maru dubshinki wrote:
We shouldn't examine that data, however. Very
bad precedent, and poor
for privacy, especially since we aren't dealing with out-and-out
vandals here, but merely critics.
But should critics of Wikipedia be admins of Wikipedia? I don't
believe
so. However, I suppose it's up to Jimbo and the Board if they want
to
expend the energy to look into it. As for privacy...it's not
against the
privacy policy, and besides which, I'm not sure that's an invasion
of
privacy anyway. You're sending data to the Wikimedia servers every
time
you visit a page, and that info is logged, and you (should) know
that. I
have no problems with the devs looking through page access logs,
myself.
Be careful with "critics of Wikipedia". *I'm* a critic of Wikipedia. So
are many of the people who post to this list, chat on IRC, or discuss ways to improve
certain areas on-site.
There's a difference between "person who criticises Wikipedia" and
"person who tries to harm Wikipedia".
Cheers,
--
Mark Gallagher