On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
After reading through the thread, I'm going to
give the benefit of the
doubt and say simply that there was a misunderstanding here. There are a
lot of deeply problematic issues with wikimetrics, but the idea that we'd
try to stop this "feature" is nuts - pretending that it solves anything
would be a distraction from the actual, more serious problems that legal
has identified. There are enough things to blame us for already; please
don't add more we're not responsible for. :)
I think that's entirely fair.
It's a complicated situation, because we made this tool originally for
users who had mostly signed contracts or employment agreements, who are
legally bound to not only not reveal private data they have access to, and
who are usually diligent about not being creepy with public data. Giving
access to such a tool to the public is harder, and has the same potential
pitfalls as basically all of Labs.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/