[Foundation-l] Data retention
Tim Starling
tstarling at wikimedia.org
Thu Sep 11 03:11:52 UTC 2008
Jon wrote:
> I could not find this in the privacy policy... however, what is
> Wikimedia's current data retention policy? That is to ask, how long do
> projects keep data for use in tools such as checkuser?
CheckUser data used to be kept for 3 months, but Aaron recently increased
it to 5 months. I'm not sure why or on whose authority.
<http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser.php?r1=39734&r2=40620>
-- Tim Starling
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