Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-26 Thread Brian J Mingus
I think it's rather curious that edits to Wikipedia aren't private. Why log the IP address? Why log anything? It's invasive. On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Forte wrote: > Hi all, > > > I'm representing a team of researchers from Drexel University who are > researching privacy practices

Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-26 Thread Oliver Keyes
I'm not seeing a reference to IP addresses in this thread or the associated research page (my ctrl-f-fu may just be weak, though): as to why IPs are logged server-side, well, checkuser is a useful tool and that's how rangeblocks work. On 25 March 2015 at 13:19, Brian J Mingus wrote: > I think it'