Brion Vibber wrote:
Sysop queries aren't allowed to touch
user_password, user_newpassword,
or user_email. It looks like I didn't think to add user_touched to the
permissions when that column was added; it is debatable whether
allowing it would be a privacy issue (as it tracks the last time
someone logged in, logged out, saved their preferences, had a message
left on their talk page, or viewed their talk page, even if they have
made not edits to the wiki and thus don't expect to be publicly
tracked).
Well, I only tested german wikipedia, of course. But I see all this values,
which of course I could not edit. The other problem I remember: public
access to user.sql via the download area. If you do this, forget all that
restrictions.
I can not test if the permissions in maintenance/users.sql are applied to
the german wiki, but in that file they look right.
If sysops are allowed that privacy data, well in contrast to Jimbos Mail
about everything open for all, I've personally no problem with
restrictions, but thats something for long term wikipedians, with the
proper wikiquette in mind.
PS: I only come across on my experiments for new SpecialPages. One Idea was
to know about never used accounts. Coming along with the idea to delete
them by software, in order to prevent things like the problematic deletion
of one of our german members.
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