[Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

[Huib Laurens]

Its againt the privacy poliicy to publish logs like that, and there is
really no good reason given why people should see al the ip
information for all visitors on a wiki

2010/11/28, dinar qorbanof <qdinar op gmail.com>:
> hello
> should not web server logs (of requests) be published?
>
> my native language is tatar and i would or i am going to write to
> tatar wikipedia and say other people to write to it.
> authors/managers/administrators of tatar texts are tatar people. for
> that i think it is correct if tatar people can see web server logs. i
> think this would not be bad for privacy of readers, because they would
> see that logs are published, and can access wikipedia through proxy to
> hide their ip address. ip-addresses of anonymous writers are already
> published. if anonymouse readers want to hide their referer or search
> keywords, they also can hide that by copy-pasting wikipedia article
> url, and this also should be said shortly on every page and in privacy
> page.
> another advantage of this is that people could create custom analysers
> of the logs.
>
> i think logs should be divided with directory structure by years,
> months, days, and probably hours.
>
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Regards,
Huib "Abigor" Laurens



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