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