I don't really see how that breaks any privacy, in fact it just tell
you since when you are using the channel. I don't think it breaks the
privacy more than similar date on wikipedia (when you create account
there is a log for that)
If someone explain to me what is wrong on that, I will remove it. The
reason why mw-bot wasn't logging JOIN and PART events was to protect
users from leaking their hostname / IP which is part of that
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You might want to remove the "Active since"
section, MWBot was set to
not record channel joins and quiets in the logs for a user privacy
point of view (from what I could find and read), this seems to be
hitting on that area. (And yes, I know a user could run a anaylais of
their own on the log lines to find something quasi similar)
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I just wanted to announce that based on request from one community
member I created a new feature in wm-bot, which may appear to be
unneeded on first sight, but when I was thinking of that, it's not
really so stupid. It collects various informations about user activity
in channel (in xml) and allow them to be rendered in some way. In this
moment I only display number of messages for each user, for example:
http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/db/%23wikimedia-labs.htm (scroll to bottom)
This is happening only in selected channels as experiment, but I
believe that it could motivate people to be more active and therefore
more helpful in these help channels. Also it would let us see how much
bots are active compared to people. (For example in #mediawiki.htm you
can see that most active users are bots)
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