Jon wrote:
I could not find this in the privacy policy...
however, what is
Wikimedia's current data retention policy? That is to ask, how long do
projects keep data for use in tools such as checkuser?
CheckUser data used to be kept for 3 months, but Aaron recently increased
it to 5 months. I'm not sure why or on whose authority.
<http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser.php?r1=39734&r2=40620>
-- Tim Starling