Hi Dan,
Agreed, I think it makes sense to consider a subject-specific request for
pages that are within the scope of epidemiology, such as influenza, where
we have reason to think that there could be public health benefits in
analyzing the data and there are reasonable safeguards to protect user
anonymity.
A request for 1 month of the private data requested here, which appears to
be for all pages on all projects, is far too broadly scoped. Also, in
general, I my instinct would be to deny external requests for WMF private
data for purposes of performance testing. It seems to me that the risks far
outweigh the benefits to Wikimedia, and that processing requests like these
would be a suboptimal use of WMF staff time.
Pine
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Pine, there are actually two separate requests and
they shouldn't be
mixed. The performance-related one is research as far as I understand, and
the other one we have no details yet. I welcome a public discussion of
either, and of course would respect any opinions held by the analytics
community at large. We have every intention to be good stewards of this
data and for what it's worth, I'm very skeptical of allowing access to
private data, unless for obviously beneficial purposes like flu
forecasting, etc.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'd appreciate a clarification about the
purpose of this request if
Wikimedia private data is involved. If I am understanding correctly, the
purpose of this request is for access to Wikimedia private data for
assistsnce with 3rd party performance testing. If that is the case, I
believe that the access request for private should simply be denied.
Pine
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