-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nathan wrote: > I can understand your frustration, Peter, but perhaps hu.wp could also have > taken a more collaborative approach. If you would like to use a method for > collecting statistics that others will view as violating the privacy policy, > or as presenting risks normally not considered throughout the rest of the > Wikimedia community of projects, then you should propose your method for > consideration prior to simply implementing it. As you note ("some steps > taken (again)") this has happened before, so some consultation with the rest > of the community before going out on a limb is advised. > > Others have since discussed more centralised and secure methods for > providing these statistics via the WMF - this is the ideal outcome, and one > that might have been achieved earlier had you proposed your method rather > than simply going ahead alone. > > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
- From what I'm reading, the foundation already collects raw data containing information collected by most normal websites (IP, I guess) and such data can only be released under special circumstances. External stats appear to violate the privacy policy, to me. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Privacy_policy) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkopYiUACgkQSPTq06lEuY8jeACfSIzcWQnOC0rbAYArBjV1QJoZ CooAoKCFnx5tasAe5O3+y5YlBFhlvdKQ =NU8H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l