<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Maarten Dammers wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>I just noticed <br><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Village_pump">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Village_pump</a>#User_preferences <br>so I wondered where the data comes from. I checked the commonswiki_p <br>database and it looks like user_properties is visible now. I always <br>considered the user_properties information privacy sensitive <br>information. It contains the gender, language and timezone of every <br>user. Information I'm sure a lot of people don't want to have exposed. <br>Please remove this table from the view.<br><br>Maarten<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Please look at the table contents.</div><div><br></div><div>The public view of user_properties on the Toolserver only contains gender,</div><div>nothing else.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to user_properties, Toolserver also features a custom view,</div><div>named "user_properties_anonym".</div><div><br></div><div>That view contains all (if not, most) preferneces, but without the user-id.</div><div>This is were the commons-page got it's information from.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Timo</div></body></html>