[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] [notice] DB replicas user_properties view redaction

Fri Dec 2 00:01:59 UTC 2016

I am not complaining! I am saying to remove any field with a "security"
justification only makes sense if it is also redacted from the API, etc.
Our security standards should be almost identical in situations like this,
is my point.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch at wikimedia.org
> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Huji Lee <huji.huji at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Makes no sense to me to exclude data from these tables that is already
>> available through MediaWiki API. Why would you hide "gender" here when it
>> is accessible through something like [1]?
>>
>
> It's also available via the {{gender:}} magic word.
>
> But I don't know why you're complaining about hiding "gender" when it is
> still available via the user_properties view, along with "disablemail",
> "fancysig", and "nickname".
>
>
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