G'day BorgHunter,
maru dubshinki wrote:
We shouldn't examine that data, however. Very bad precedent, and poor for privacy, especially since we aren't dealing with out-and-out vandals here, but merely critics.
But should critics of Wikipedia be admins of Wikipedia? I don't believe so. However, I suppose it's up to Jimbo and the Board if they want to expend the energy to look into it. As for privacy...it's not against the privacy policy, and besides which, I'm not sure that's an invasion of privacy anyway. You're sending data to the Wikimedia servers every time you visit a page, and that info is logged, and you (should) know that. I have no problems with the devs looking through page access logs, myself.
Be careful with "critics of Wikipedia". *I'm* a critic of Wikipedia. So are many of the people who post to this list, chat on IRC, or discuss ways to improve certain areas on-site.
There's a difference between "person who criticises Wikipedia" and "person who tries to harm Wikipedia".
Cheers,