[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Web Logs for scientific research

[Dori]

On 5/10/05, Mirco Nanni <mirco.nanni at isti.cnr.it> wrote:
> 
> Of course, we are willing to provide you all the legal
> agreements you will consider necessary, especially those
> regarding privacy. And, obviously, we will properly
> acknowledge your contribution in any of our scientifical
> publications and reports where we use it.
> 
> [Addendum: the sensible information in web logs is
> essentially located in the "client IP" field ("who visited
> that page"). However, for our research purposes such field
> is not strictly needed as an encrypted version of it would
> be enough, thus avoiding most of the privacy issues.]


The problem is if you substitute the IP with a unique number, and you still 
show accesses to user pages, you can probably identify the logged in users. 
I'd be OK if the IPs were masked AND accesses to non-article namespace pages 
were not given out.