On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
Reading the Privacy policy I dont see this would violate the policy as it specifically doesnt record private data(ip, username), in my reading of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Purpose_of_the_collection_of_p... the policy specifically says "The Foundation limits the collection of personally identifiable user data to purposes which serve the well-being of its projects...." then includes some examples like public accountability of the projects, and site statistics(raw data is not made public). This the tool appears to be within those bounds of the privacy policy.
Even if they would fall under the privacy policy, according to it the collection of private data can be done "including but not limited to the following" purposes: <snip> "To provide site statistics. The Foundation statistically samples raw log data from users' visits. These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages; the raw log data is not made public."
So in my opinion even if we _would_ save private information with the clicks, that still would not violate the privacy policy as long as the data is sufficiently anonymized before it is seen by human eyes.