2008/6/6 FT2 <ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
From [[Meta:Help:Checkuser]], the main WMF guidance
page, the full quote:
The first versions of the WMF guidance/help page from October 2005 stated
the same:
Oct 2005:
"If they're on a large ISP (e.g. AOL, NTL, BT, Telstra), they're one of
millions and it's not personally identifiable."
"Revealing the country is generally not personally identifiable (e.g.
"User:Querulous is coming in from the UK, User:Sockpuppet is coming in from
Canada")."
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:CheckUser&oldid=226259
BTW, this was text I wrote at the time as part of a quick guide to
checkuser for checkers. So it was basically my opinion - not a
Foundation rule - that revealing countries didn't violate the privacy
policy. This appears to have stuck, but it is of course subject to
change should people feel strongly and make a good case that revealing
countries does.
- d.