2009/11/19 Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Hi all,
as promised on the meeting, I wrote a small JavaScript/Toolserver
setup that can log clicks on Commons leading to external pages.
I believe this would be a violation of Wikimedia's privacy policy.
If it contains no explicitly private information (no username) and
isn't linked to any other log entries (no "person 489272 clicked the
following links...") - and from the way Magnus describes it this
seems to be the case - then it seems to me like it wouldn't, because
no data can be linked to a user in any reasonable or consistent
manner. That said, IANAL. ;-)
(It is pushing into the area where we do need to be aware of privacy
concerns, though!)
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- Andrew Gray
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