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Nathan wrote:
I can understand your frustration, Peter, but perhaps hu.wp could also have taken a more collaborative approach. If you would like to use a method for collecting statistics that others will view as violating the privacy policy, or as presenting risks normally not considered throughout the rest of the Wikimedia community of projects, then you should propose your method for consideration prior to simply implementing it. As you note ("some steps taken (again)") this has happened before, so some consultation with the rest of the community before going out on a limb is advised.
Others have since discussed more centralised and secure methods for providing these statistics via the WMF - this is the ideal outcome, and one that might have been achieved earlier had you proposed your method rather than simply going ahead alone.
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- From what I'm reading, the foundation already collects raw data containing information collected by most normal websites (IP, I guess) and such data can only be released under special circumstances.
External stats appear to violate the privacy policy, to me. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Privacy_policy)