Hi,
I recently updated code of updater in order to get some better stats of huggle usage: http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/updater/updates.txt
Unfortunately I figured out that tool labs don't provide any way to collect (even anonymized) hostnames of people who are opening the website.
For this reason I would like to move the updater out of tool labs to huggle.wmflabs.org (our private instance on wmflabs that is already used for a number of services related to huggle, most notably whitelist and ClueBot relay), so that we could make a distinction in statistics based on IP address of users who do use it. Note these IP addresses would be turned to md5 hashes.
Is there any objection or some opinion on this?
What is the difference between unhashed IP(v4)'s and md5 hashes? Pretty easy and very fast to solve that puzzle.
If we really want to collect IPs for statistical use (with disclaimer), I would say (for IPv4) to only store the first two octets. IIRC that should still be enough to get country information and other stuff from it. And also I wouldn't expose even those raw anonymised IPs together with timestamps, but show aggregated stats only.
Am 27.08.2014 um 16:33 schrieb Petr Bena:
Note these IP addresses would be turned to md5 hashes.
Problem here is not about hashing IP's but that on tool labs you don't get any IP's. So you can't know if these are from 1 user or 20 different users. That is a problem I want to solve.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:30 PM, se4598@gmx.de wrote:
What is the difference between unhashed IP(v4)'s and md5 hashes? Pretty easy and very fast to solve that puzzle.
If we really want to collect IPs for statistical use (with disclaimer), I would say (for IPv4) to only store the first two octets. IIRC that should still be enough to get country information and other stuff from it. And also I wouldn't expose even those raw anonymised IPs together with timestamps, but show aggregated stats only.
Am 27.08.2014 um 16:33 schrieb Petr Bena:
Note these IP addresses would be turned to md5 hashes.
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