I suggest you ask Coren for this. He's in charge of the database of WMF Labs.
On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Adam Nielsen a.nielsen@shikadi.net wrote:
Hi all,
Just as a safety net I'd like to publish copies of the databases powering my MediaWiki installations, so that if I lose all my data and backups, I might still be able to get something back (as well as reassuring my users that their contributions won't be lost forever!)
I don't want to publish the raw database dump because it contains people's e-mail addresses and password hashes, but I'm thinking that perhaps if I take a copy of the database and erase the values in those tables, I might be able to export and publish the 'anonymised' copy. I'd rather not omit the user table entirely, because if I do ever need to restore the wiki from this copy I'll need it to associate the right account with each edit.
Does anyone know which fields contain sensitive data that I should remove? I can see these obvious candidates:
user.user_password user.user_newpassword user.user_email user.user_token user.user_email_token
Are there any others that are potentially confidential and should not be made public?
Many thanks, Adam.
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