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

[Philippe Beaudette]

Beria, MZ, and anyone else who said three months is correct.
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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:

> you mean, I'm correct, because I'm the one who said 3 months ;)
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> On 4 February 2012 20:27, Philippe Beaudette <philippe at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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> > Philippe Beaudette
> > Head of Reader Relations
> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > 415-839-6885, x 6643
> >
> > philippe at wikimedia.org
> >
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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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