Mark Richards wrote:
Angela - can you explain / point to where this is explained? Having this information more readily available seems a lot more sinister. Mark
The only information on it that I am aware of is what is written in the draft privacy policy. See http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_privacy_policy#Private_logging.
This example of what is logged shows a user's IP, user-agent, the page they viewed and the time they did it:
12.345.67.890 - - [16/Jun/2004:07:10:19 +0000] "GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084 "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"
These are available to the people listed on http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer with at least shell access.
The logs are not kept permanently (about two weeks according to the draft policy).
Angela.
--- Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Speaking of which, it would be nice for stewards
to have the ability to check
those logs in these cases. Our developers seem to
be overworked as it is.
-- mav
If a new system is implemented whereby IPs are stored in the database and not just in the log files, I would have no objection to stewards having access to these. However, until then, I do not support stewards being given access to the same logs that the developers currently have to check for IPs. Firstly, it would be largely a waste of time as they are too large to search through efficiently, and secondly, they include details of not only page saves, but also page views. This would be too much of a privacy violation if stewards had that sort of information.
Angela.