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

[Béria Lima]

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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> 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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