Re: [Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-12 Thread DeltaQuad Wikipedia
I personally don't have a problem with it. The only issue I see with it is it could show when users are getting on IRC, and over time could indicate a timezone that said user is in, not that a wiki contribs page already does this. -- DeltaQuad English Wikipedia Administrator and Checkuser On Tue

Re: [Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread Petr Bena
I don't really see how that breaks any privacy, in fact it just tell you since when you are using the channel. I don't think it breaks the privacy more than similar date on wikipedia (when you create account there is a log for that) If someone explain to me what is wrong on that, I will remove it.

Re: [Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread K. Peachey
You might want to remove the "Active since" section, MWBot was set to not record channel joins and quiets in the logs for a user privacy point of view (from what I could find and read), this seems to be hitting on that area. (And yes, I know a user could run a anaylais of their own on the log lines

[Wikitech-l] New experimental feature on IRC

2012-09-11 Thread Petr Bena
Hi, I just wanted to announce that based on request from one community member I created a new feature in wm-bot, which may appear to be unneeded on first sight, but when I was thinking of that, it's not really so stupid. It collects various informations about user activity in channel (in xml) and