[Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

[Nikola Smolenski]

Дана Sunday 28 November 2010 09:53:06 Huib Laurens написа:
> Its againt the privacy poliicy to publish logs like that, and there is

It should be possible to anonymyse the logs sufficiently so that no private 
information could be gained from them.

> really no good reason given why people should see al the ip
> information for all visitors on a wiki

Well it would be possible to create custom analysers of the logs.

> 2010/11/28, dinar qorbanof <qdinar at gmail.com>:
> > hello
> > should not web server logs (of requests) be published?
> >
> > my native language is tatar and i would or i am going to write to
> > tatar wikipedia and say other people to write to it.
> > authors/managers/administrators of tatar texts are tatar people. for
> > that i think it is correct if tatar people can see web server logs. i
> > think this would not be bad for privacy of readers, because they would
> > see that logs are published, and can access wikipedia through proxy to
> > hide their ip address. ip-addresses of anonymous writers are already
> > published. if anonymouse readers want to hide their referer or search
> > keywords, they also can hide that by copy-pasting wikipedia article
> > url, and this also should be said shortly on every page and in privacy
> > page.
> > another advantage of this is that people could create custom analysers
> > of the logs.
> >
> > i think logs should be divided with directory structure by years,
> > months, days, and probably hours.