On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:

How would folks feel about a public log of WikiMetrics uses in this form

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We're tracking this info right now without sharing it. I don't feel
it's particularly sensitive, and would give us a good shared
understanding of who's using the tool & how. It does expose cohort
names, but I'm not sure why that would be an issue. In a way, it seems

Exposing cohort names is not a good idea as that can leak sensitive information about an editor who is part of that cohort. Imagine a cohort name like "Berlin Edithon", this is one of the reasons why we want to introduce user roles in Wikimetrics where WMF employees can share cohorts with each other but community members cannot.

Besides that detail, sounds like a fun idea :)

only fair that if we're putting our users under the microscope, we
should also be comfortable with publicly logging what we're doing.

Thanks,
Erik

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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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