On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Logs cannot be read by wikipedia owners or us
government because they don't exist.
There aren't any raw logs?
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
Each web server, of which the WMF has a few, collects
details on the
behaviour of IPs, in logs. Those logs can be and probably have been requested by
certain government officials, most likely for the purpose of tracking down
who is behind a certain "Bad" posting to a BLP.
Presumably they would
usually just use CheckUser data for that.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
I'm still not clear why we would want to know the
IP exactly for analytical
purposes. Some intrepid programmer could write a program which would
simply collect detailed analysis of a person's in-world behaviour and call them
"Bob992" instead of 13.42.204.192 or whatever. Making the information
packets anonymous. That would still allow any sort of analysis the Tatars want to
make, and not reveal any private information.
It's a bit more complicated than
that. Sometimes anonymous isn't
anonymous enough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal