On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Merlijn van Deen <valhall...@arctus.nl> wrote: > > For example, the deep user inspector's punchcard could be prevented by > simply hiding or rounding the time of an edit (although it might also be > necessary to rewrite revision id's, for example). > > It's really not a technical or legal obstacle
Err, it seems to me that rewriting the revision ids everywhere in the database would be a major technical obstacle. Rounding timestamps is less so, although to prevent this "punchcard" you'd have to round them to the point where they'd be useless for many things people *do* want to do. Keep in mind that to prevent "evildoers" you'd really have to do this rounding on-wiki as well: how would you like to go to Some_page?action=history and not be able to tell when an edit was made or reverted? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
