Mark Richards wrote:
Angela - can you explain / point to where this is
explained? Having this information more readily
available seems a lot more sinister.
Mark
The only information on it that I am aware of is what is written in
the draft privacy policy. See
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_privacy_policy#Private_logging.
This example of what is logged shows a user's IP, user-agent, the page
they viewed and the time they did it:
12.345.67.890 - - [16/Jun/2004:07:10:19 +0000]
"GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7
(KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"
These are available to the people listed on
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer with at least shell access.
The logs are not kept permanently (about two weeks according to the
draft policy).
Angela.
--- Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote:
> > >Speaking of which, it would be nice for stewards
> to have the ability to check
> > >those logs in these cases. Our developers seem to
> be overworked as it is.
> > >-- mav
>
> If a new system is implemented whereby IPs are
> stored in the database
> and not just in the log files, I would have no
> objection to stewards
> having access to these. However, until then, I do
> not support stewards
> being given access to the same logs that the
> developers currently have
> to check for IPs. Firstly, it would be largely a
> waste of time as they
> are too large to search through efficiently, and
> secondly, they
> include details of not only page saves, but also
> page views. This
> would be too much of a privacy violation if stewards
> had that sort of
> information.
>
> Angela.