On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.dewrote:
Andrew Garrett schrieb:
On 17/06/2009, at 2:26 PM, John Doe wrote:
I have access to the toolserver and rcip is not available. please note that the chechuser table is created by an extension and not by mediawiki thus you cannot depend on extensions that my or may not be insalled on all wikis. it may be that way on MWF wikis bit mediawiki is not just used on MWF wikis. what you want done cannot be done untill CU is merged into the trunk
As Daniel explained, the proposal is to disable the functionality except for wikis with an extension providing the past-IP data installed. On these wikis, the data would be provided by means of a hook.
Yep. But it's a bit painful... hmpf.
Of course, this is pointless if you can filter out rc_ip with a view on the toolserver...
No - the problem is, if it is on the toolserver at all, wmde might be sued into revealing it. So it would be nice to not copy it there. Hiding it from *users* is not the issue, we have been doing that for years.
If the current concern is the toolserver, and the toolserver never actually uses this info, shouldn't it be possible to set up a process that routinely wiped out those records? Not an ideal solution perhaps, but the contortions you seem to be suggesting for the core don't strike me as ideal either.
-Robert Rohde