[Foundation-l] Re: Research access to logs

Jerome Jamnicky jeronimwp at yahoo.com.au
Tue Aug 16 09:24:33 UTC 2005


Tobias Denninger wrote:
> Jerome Jamnicky <jeronimwp at ...> writes:
> 
> 
>>If you haven't already, please read the privacy policy carefully, and 
>>also this thread, where somebody made a similar request for a similar 
>>purpose:
>>http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-July/thread.html#30917
> 
> 
> I don't need a direct access to the log file. I also don't want the statistics
> for myself but I had the idea a feature like I explained before could be useful
> for the wikipedia. So all personal data could remain on a wikipedia server.
> Personal recommendations would be visible only to the concerned user. I would
> just need a sample of the logfile to test scripts. But maybe we should first
> clarify if we want to add this feature..Tobias

I thought it would be obvious, but giving you a sample of the logfile is 
a violation of the (current) privacy policy.  So your options are to 
offer a script to alter the logfile so that we would not violate the 
policy by giving the resulting file to you, or to get the policy changed.

-Jerome
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