2009/11/19 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Hi all,
as promised on the meeting, I wrote a small JavaScript/Toolserver setup that can log clicks on Commons leading to external pages.
I believe this would be a violation of Wikimedia's privacy policy.
If it contains no explicitly private information (no username) and isn't linked to any other log entries (no "person 489272 clicked the following links...") - and from the way Magnus describes it this seems to be the case - then it seems to me like it wouldn't, because no data can be linked to a user in any reasonable or consistent manner. That said, IANAL. ;-)
(It is pushing into the area where we do need to be aware of privacy concerns, though!)