[Foundation-l] Re: Research access to logs

Jerome Jamnicky jeronimwp at yahoo.com.au
Tue Aug 16 10:09:54 UTC 2005


Tim Starling wrote:
> Jerome Jamnicky wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Well, it was me who suggested that, we could just give him log files for
> a few IP addresses corresponding to people who have given their consent.
> For example, we could give him logs of his own requests.

Oh okay.  Well, if that's what he wants, I'll help out.

> I'm now thinking, however, that log files are not what Tobias wants at
> all, instead he wants something similar to the page view counter, which
> was disabled for efficiency reasons.

Logwood gives page counts, but it's broken for en: at the moment.  See 
for example:
http://www2.knams.wikimedia.org/logwood//archive/hr.wikipedia.org/2005-08/2005-08.hr.wikipedia.org.all_urls.txt

> -- Tim Starling
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