On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Platonides <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Platonides@gmail.com">Platonides@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">S. Nunes wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi all,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I presume that Wikipedia keeps data about HTTP accesses to all articles.<br>
&gt; Can anybody inform me if this data is available for research purposes?<br>
<br>
</div>No. With the amount of traffic it has, space needs would be immense, and<br>
Wikimedia is not interested in logging all accesses.<br></blockquote><div><br>What kind of space needs are we talking about?  I find it hard to imagine that the other top 10 websites aren&#39;t keeping this information.  Shouldn&#39;t you be logging every access, at least for a few days, in case of some sort of security breach?<br>
 </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">&gt; Access to this information poses<br><div class="im">
&gt; no risk to users&#39; privacy since no user information is made available<br>
&gt; - sessions&#39; id, hour/minute timestamp data and IPs could be easily<br>
&gt; discarded.<br>
<br>
</div><br>What if your referer was your facebook personal page leaking your full<br>
real name?<br></blockquote><div><br>And what if you&#39;re in the sample?  I find it quite inappropriate that even sampled data like this is being released.<br></div></div>