I can't see a reason for the data to not be available; the deficiencies
were (iirc) pre-2004-ish. It's actually really trivial to tell when they
started, because the "guesstimates" are the timestamp of the first revision
associated with the user.

So I'm not sure that this was a deliberate design decision - and if it was,
I can't imagine they'd nullify the entire field just because of some
inaccuracies a decade ago ;p.


On 13 February 2014 09:13, Felipe Ortega <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, Nemo.
>
> It is a shame. Does this means that this information is also inaccurate
> for users created after r12207 (Dec. 2005) ? At least, it would be useful
> to compare any differences between the periods 2006-2008 and 2009-present.
>
> In fact, I remember that this information was available in the DB replicas
> in Toolserver. But I haven't had the chance to check against log entries,
> yet.
>
> Regards,
> Felipe.
>
>
>
>   El Jueves 13 de febrero de 2014 15:17, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
> [email protected]> escribió:
>
> Felipe Ortega, 13/02/2014 14:57:
>
> > My question is: are there any reasons for redacting this (apparently
> > public) info? I can't figure out why this could be sensitive data.
>
>
> It's not redacted, it simply never existed. There aren't even log
> entries for old registrations; on some wiki(s) the field was populated
> with guesstimates.
> See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18638 ,
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22097 depends on it/is a
> duplicate.
>
> Nemo
>
>
>
>
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