All that the tool does is merge [[Special:Contributions]] of multiple users and shows pages that multiple accounts have edited in common. Im really not sure how that could be considered a privacy issue.
Betacommand On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de> > wrote: > > The fact that you are using public data for your analysis does NOT mean > that > > it's compliant with the policy. > > As I understand it, there are three options for tools like this: > > * Limit the tool to trusted users, so that the analysis is not > publicly available. This is the simplest option, but you should check > with the TS admins whether this would be acceptable. > > * Run the tool on a host other than toolserver and don't use the > toolserver databases as a data source. Then the toolserver privacy > policy doesn't apply. > > * Get consent from the users whose data is being analyzed. This is > impractical for investigating sockpuppets. > > The underlying source of the privacy policy is that the toolserver is > associated with WIkimedia Deutschland, and German privacy law is not > the same as U.S. privacy law. > > - Carl > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette >
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