[Toolserver-l] user_properties privacy issues, not

[Krinkle]

Maarten Dammers wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just noticed
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Commons:Village_pump 
> #User_preferences
> so I wondered where the data comes from. I checked the commonswiki_p
> database and it looks like user_properties is visible now. I always
> considered the user_properties information privacy sensitive
> information. It contains the gender, language and timezone of every
> user. Information I'm sure a lot of people don't want to have exposed.
> Please remove this table from the view.
>
> Maarten
>

Please look at the table contents.

The public view of user_properties on the Toolserver only contains  
gender,
nothing else.

In addition to user_properties, Toolserver also features a custom view,
named "user_properties_anonym".

That view contains all (if not, most) preferneces, but without the  
user-id.
This is were the commons-page got it's information from.

--
Timo
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