All that the tool does is merge [[Special:Contributions]] of multiple users and shows pages that multiple accounts have edited in common. Im really not sure how that could be considered a privacy issue.
Betacommand
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
The fact that you are using public data for your analysis does NOT mean
that
it's compliant with the policy.
As I understand it, there are three options for tools like this:
- Limit the tool to trusted users, so that the analysis is not
publicly available. This is the simplest option, but you should check with the TS admins whether this would be acceptable.
- Run the tool on a host other than toolserver and don't use the
toolserver databases as a data source. Then the toolserver privacy policy doesn't apply.
- Get consent from the users whose data is being analyzed. This is
impractical for investigating sockpuppets.
The underlying source of the privacy policy is that the toolserver is associated with WIkimedia Deutschland, and German privacy law is not the same as U.S. privacy law.
- Carl
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