Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-08 Thread Jimmy Wales
Couldn't the stats job you want run on toolserver? Peter Gervai wrote: Hello, I wasn't subscribed to this list, since I usually try to avoid the politics around. I was notified, however, that some interesting claims were made and some steps taken (again) without any discussion

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-08 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! Couldn't the stats job you want run on toolserver? Really, this isn't much of foundation-l issue - we have been collecting and providing detailed article viewership statistics for over a year. People are building various applications on top of that data, like

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread John at Darkstar
Discussing something as a general social concern is one thing, claiming that it is a wmf legal issue is something different. John Michael Snow skrev: John at Darkstar wrote: Are the developers lawyers? A developer claiming something has an unwanted privacy issue is very different from making

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Brian
It is a WMF legal issue, in addition to being a social issue. No claim is being made that its a legal issue, it's just a fact. On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:43 AM, John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no wrote: Discussing something as a general social concern is one thing, claiming that it is a wmf legal

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Brian
Just to be clear, it has been claimed in this thread that the CheckUser right also gives those admins the right to collect additional data on users and analyze it. I've just read the privacy policy and that is not true. You'll also find [[Privacy policy]] interesting, although you might decide to

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Bence Damokos
This might be going off topic, and not really helpful in finding a solution (along the lines of wamping up WMF stats capabilities in the near future or reinstating the huwiki solution in a way accpetable to the WMF and the hu.wp community and possibly benefitting other communities, as well): On

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Brian
I'm going off of statements like this: I happen to be the one who have created the Hungarian checkuser policy, which is, as far as I know, the strictest one in WMF projects, and it's no joke, and I intend to follow it. On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! Are the developers lawyers? IANAL. A developer claiming something has an unwanted privacy issue is very different from making claims about something being a legal issue on the behalf of Foundation. Simply don't do it. I failed to phrase what I wanted to write you in a way, that I

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! I believe there was no such claim, if anything, it was pointed out that setting up the stats engine didn't give access to information that was not accessible before by the Checkusers (even if logged), and that most fears of data being handled by the wrong hands are mitigated by

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Brian
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote: And, Brian, Volunteer admins cannot take user privacy into their own hands, under their own interpretation. That's just not how it works! You don't seen to have sufficient understanding how it works. :(

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! Assuming you're not taking this out of context, please explain the difference between how it works and my conception of how it works. Sorry, I misread your statement. I took Volunteer admins as Volunteer sysadmins - my greatest apology. BR, Domas

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread teun spaans
I don't think that any random admin on one of the projects should be able to insert a web bug into Common.js is what he suggests. The Hungarian situation seems to have been in place with support of the hungarian community, at least at start. Frankly, I'd rather see private sensitive data on an

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread Mark (Markie)
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Peter Gervaigrin...@gmail.com wrote: snip The community cannot decide that Random_user1 and Random_user2 etc will agree with the communities view on the stats being passed to an external

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread Brian
This is another e-mail on this subject that just strikes me as flawed. These are not vague privacy fears - they are real privacy fears. I see a fundamental failure by those involved in this controversy to understand this point. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Tisza Gergő gti...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread Brian
I also have not seen a clear explanation of what those who would like to generate statistics using web bugs plan to do with that data. How do they plan to use the data, and why aren't the plethora of statistics now made officially available by the WMF not satisfactory? You have bypassed the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread John at Darkstar
* clap - clap * John Peter Gervai skrev: Hello, I wasn't subscribed to this list, since I usually try to avoid the politics around. I was notified, however, that some interesting claims were made and some steps taken (again) without any discussion whatsoever. First, let me tell it

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread John at Darkstar
The strange thingh is, some such servers seems to be outside discussion while others are not. ;) John Tisza Gergő skrev: Nathan nawr...@... writes: Others have since discussed more centralised and secure methods for providing these statistics via the WMF - this is the ideal outcome, and one

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread John at Darkstar
You can make claims about what you yourself wants or believe, but do *not* claim that your personal beliefs reflects legal issues for Foundation. If Foundation needs to make claims about what is and whats not a legal issue, then such claims should be made by Mike. John Brian skrev: I also have

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread Brian
Or by one of the WMF developers removing the web bug. 2009/6/6 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no You can make claims about what you yourself wants or believe, but do *not* claim that your personal beliefs reflects legal issues for Foundation. If Foundation needs to make claims about what is and

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread John at Darkstar
Are the developers lawyers? A developer claiming something has an unwanted privacy issue is very different from making claims about something being a legal issue on the behalf of Foundation. Simply don't do it. John Brian skrev: Or by one of the WMF developers removing the web bug. 2009/6/6

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-06 Thread Michael Snow
John at Darkstar wrote: Are the developers lawyers? A developer claiming something has an unwanted privacy issue is very different from making claims about something being a legal issue on the behalf of Foundation. Simply don't do it. Privacy is not simply a legal issue, it's a general

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Gervai
Hello, I wasn't subscribed to this list, since I usually try to avoid the politics around. I was notified, however, that some interesting claims were made and some steps taken (again) without any discussion whatsoever. First, let me tell it here again - as I have told it on a different list -

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Nathan
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

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Unionhawk
-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

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Bence Damokos
I'd like to note in the interest of facts that the Huwp stats have been implemented (without complaint till now, June 2009) since October 2006; the current version of the privacy policy has been available in English since October 2008. I think it might not be very productive to judge the action

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread effe iets anders
2009/6/5 Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com snip The stats (which have, by surprise, a dedicated domain under th hu wikipedia domain) runs on a dedicated server, with nothing else on it. Its sole purpose to gather and publish the stats. Basically nobody have permission to log in the servers but

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Alex
effe iets anders wrote: 2009/6/5 Peter Gervai grin...@gmail.com snip The stats (which have, by surprise, a dedicated domain under th hu wikipedia domain) runs on a dedicated server, with nothing else on it. Its sole purpose to gather and publish the stats. Basically nobody have permission

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Bennó
And that without any complain from 2005 onward (practically from the beginning of huwiki's real existence). B. -Original Message- It is linked from the statistics page and other relevant places, not exactly a secret.) __ ESET Smart Security - Vírusdefiníciós adatbázis:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Mark (Markie)
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Tisza Gergő gti...@gmail.com wrote: Bence Damokos bdamo...@... writes: I'd like to note in the interest of facts that the Huwp stats have been implemented (without complaint till now, June 2009) since October 2006; the current version of the privacy policy

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Snow
Mark (Markie) wrote: I still fail to see how, at this point (not before when there was no policy) this can be considered to be acceptable. As I understand it, nobody is arguing that it's considered acceptable at this point. People involved in the Hungarian Wikipedia have been explaining the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Mark (Markie)
Apologies for this, I'm getting confused between multiple threads on this. Regards Mark On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net wrote: Mark (Markie) wrote: I still fail to see how, at this point (not before when there was no policy) this can be considered to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Michael Snowwikipe...@verizon.net wrote: As I understand it, nobody is arguing that it's considered acceptable at this point. Peter Gervai seemed to argue exactly that, unless I badly misread him: someone from outside seriously interfere with other project

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Tisza Gergőgti...@gmail.com wrote: I do argue that it is not in violation of the privacy policy (whether the people here find it acceptable is another question). It may be within the letter of the privacy policy. I think that's entirely arguable, since the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Snow
Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Michael Snowwikipe...@verizon.net wrote: As I understand it, nobody is arguing that it's considered acceptable at this point. Peter Gervai seemed to argue exactly that, unless I badly misread him: And so did Tisza Gergő:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Peter Gervai
Just a few sidenotes now. 2009/6/5 Mark (Markie) newsmar...@googlemail.com: There are a few issues with this.  Devs have access to logs on WMF servers, not random external servers. This is a good suggestion, basically you say that I should request the foundation to provide me a server inside

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Brian
This argument - which is effectively that community members should be considered Wikimedia Foundation staff members - is very brittle. It is neither sound nor valid. Do yourself a favor and consider the logic of the other side. It will save you from confusion later when you realize that you were

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Robert Rohde
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Peter Gervaigrin...@gmail.com wrote: snip The community cannot decide that Random_user1 and Random_user2 etc will agree with the communities view on the stats being passed to an external server. As you are aware it's not really random user, so what you write is

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Tisza Gergőgti...@gmail.com wrote: Tisza Gergő gti...@... writes: I do argue that it is not in violation of the privacy policy (whether the people here find it acceptable is another question). Just to make it clear, I don't think accordance with the privacy

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Samuel Klein
Michael Snow writes: Maybe it's just the lawyer in me, but I read those comments primarily as a defense against a perceived prosecution for allegedly violating the privacy policy. I don't read them that way - rather as saying This isn't clearly in violation; it has been working for a long time

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-05 Thread Brian
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Peter said that he could run whatever was being done on an external server on a WMF machine that [core] developers have access to. What does this have to do with being Foundation staff? He is trying rationalize his