I personally don't have a problem with it. The only issue I see with it is
it could show when users are getting on IRC, and over time could indicate a
timezone that said user is in, not that a wiki contribs page already does
this.
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DeltaQuad
English Wikipedia Administrator and Checkuser
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Petr Bena
benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
> 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@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@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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