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, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. The > reason why mw-bot wasn't logging JOIN and PART events was to protect > users from leaking their hostname / IP which is part of that > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 to find something quasi similar) > > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 allow them to be rendered in some way. In this > >> moment I only display number of messages for each user, for example: > >> > >> http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/db/%23wikimedia-labs.htm (scroll to > bottom) > >> > >> This is happening only in selected channels as experiment, but I > >> believe that it could motivate people to be more active and therefore > >> more helpful in these help channels. Also it would let us see how much > >> bots are active compared to people. (For example in #mediawiki.htm you > >> can see that most active users are bots) > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
