[Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

[Philippe Beaudette]

MZ is correct:  3 months is the purge for Checkuser data.

As to the rest of it, Diederick van Liere, our resident guru of data, will
be checking into this, and will confirm back when we know exactly wht is
intended by the devs for that data.  I will say that generally speaking,
the Foundation prefers to maintain the minimum data possible for the
shortest period of time.

Thanks,
pb
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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:19 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> Fred Bauder wrote:
> > David Gerard wrote:
> >> 3 months I can live with :-) Can someone from WMF just confirm what data
> >> is kept for how long?
> >
> > The exact time is confidential.
>
> Err, no, I don't think so. It's not defined in the files at
> <http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/>, which means it should be using the
> default, as defined at
> <
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CheckUser/CheckU
> ser.php?revision=106556&view=markup>. From that file:
>
> ---
> # How long to keep CU data?
> $wgCUDMaxAge = 3 * 30 * 24 * 3600; // 3 months
> ---
>
> The last attempt to change this value (without community discussion) was
> summarily shot down:
> <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=40847>.
>
> That's only CheckUser data, though. I'm not sure what David wants confirmed
> from the Wikimedia Foundation. Different data has different expiries. A lot
> of it is permanent (e.g., revisions aren't going anywhere for the most
> part). I guess the question is specific to the ClickTracking extension:
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ClickTracking>?
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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