[Foundation-l] Data retention

[Joe Szilagyi]

Is there a plan to detail all of this including time frames in a more public
location, such as the privacy policy? If not, why not?

Joe



On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> >
> > I think Jon was inquiring about more than just checkuser (notice the
> > "such as").  I would assume that anyone asking about data retention in
> > general is not overly concerned with the specific modes of retention,
> > but is more concerned with the maximum retention time (across all
> > modes) of any particular type of private data.
>
> The other logs are not automatically rotated, and need to be manually
> purged. The retention time is thus not consistent. Typically we have kept
> around 6 months of data. There are error logs, and logs for various kinds
> of special requests. They are not used for sockpuppet investigation.
>
> I've said in the past that I think 6 months would be a reasonable horizon
> for all private data -- it would give us plenty of data for operations,
> and would be a far shorter period than that used by the large commercial
> websites.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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