[Foundation-l] Data retention

[Tim Starling]

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