[Toolserver-l] Privacy Violation?

[Stephen Bain]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Brett Hillebrand
<bretthillebrand at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> "Tools that allow profiling of individual user's activity (beyond what can
> easily be achieved directly on the public wiki sites) must only be applied
> with the respective user's consent (opt-in)."

Well the policy is pretty vague (indeed, you have quoted the whole of it there).

What counts as profiling and what does not? And what "can easily be
achieved" using only the wiki?

The editing overlap can be reproduced quite straightforwardly using
Special:Contributions and article history pages (or the API), perhaps
with the aid of a pencil and paper and the browser's search function
for the larger sets. There could be quite a bit of labour in that
though. Does that count as "easy"?

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com