I note now that the full chat transcript has been restored; thank you. I am still interested in the answer to the question.
Sincerely, Jim On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:46 AM James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just now I asked the following question on the Technical Talk > livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CRsiwYM9w > > 10:19 AM: Page 20 of Robert West's 2016 Stanford thesis, "Human > Navigation of Information Networks" says, "We have access to > Wikimedia’s full server logs, containing all HTTP requests to > Wikimedia projects." > 10:19 AM: The text is at > http://infolab.stanford.edu/~west1/pubs/West_Dissertation-2016.pdf > 10:19 AM: Page 19 indicates that this information includes the "IP > address, proxy information, and user agent." > 10:20 AM: This is confirmed by West at > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0NPhT-fsE&t=25m40s > 10:20 AM: Does the Foundation still share that identifying information > with research affiliates? If so, how many are them world-wide; if not, > when did sharing this information stop? > 10:25 AM: MediaWiki @James Salsman I see your question, but donfly. > Can we reach out to you after the talk? > 10:25 AM: MediaWiki: sorry hit enter too soon! > 10:26 AM: MediaWiki: I don't have the full-context of the thesis to > ask kate to answer the question on the fly. Can we reach out to you > after? > 10:26 AM: James Salsman: With whom am I corresponding? > 10:27 AM: James Salsman: Sarah? > 10:28 AM: MediaWiki: Yes! That's me! > 10:28 AM: James Salsman: Would it be easier to ask, "how many research > affiliates does the Foundation share server logs with IP addresses?" > 10:29 AM: MediaWiki: Yes, I can ask that. > 10:30 AM: James Salsman: Thank you. > > At 10:34, the messages with the the URLs I posted were removed from > the chat log. > > At 10:36, the chat stream was removed from the video, which was > replaced with the text, "Chat is disabled for this live stream," and > now is completely missing. > > I am still interested in getting an answer to this question, but > disturbed by the removal of links to sources. Could I please have an > explanation? > > Sincerely, > Jim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
