On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
It looks like there are partial views for the tables (click_tracking and click_tracking_events) on the Toolserver, for what it's worth.
Oh wow, I had no idea those were there. I'm not entirely sure that's a good idea. It's a partial view but it only suppresses the session_id field.
Anyway, I'll let the toolserver folks decide on the privacy concerns around exposing the edit count fields (like I said, that can be identifiable information in certain cases). This does mean anyone with a toolserver account can do analysis on the data as it comes in, which is a good thing cause it means less work for me :)
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
I asked about it in the #toolserver IRC channel and had this conversation with River:
<sumanah> I have heard some discussion of a privacy implication around exposing edit count fields: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-August/thread.html#5472... It sounds as though the toolserver community should consider whether this needs to be changed? <felicity> sumanah: which message talks about edit counts? wm-de would need to decide on that, but personally i don't see a problem with it <felicity> it's just a pre-computed version of information that's trivially available from the database anyway <sumanah> felicity: I didn't totally follow it, but http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-August/054720.html and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-August/054730.html seem to have the gist <felicity> sumanah: the version of click_tracking exposed to users is redacted: http://p.tcx.org.uk/63 <felicity> sumanah: it was originally requested by Roan: https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/TS-1012 so I assume WMF is okay with it
I'm not personally interested in pushing forward on any investigation, consensus-building, etc. regarding this issue, but wanted to put this information out there in case someone else is.
Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation