If we are looking at refactoring code then we
should look at eventually
moving to wikidata for language links.
Joe
On Feb 9, 2013 10:39 PM, "Tom Morris" <tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
On Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 20:08, Andy
Mabbett wrote:
On 9 February 2013 18:39, Tom Morris
<tom(a)tommorris.org (mailto:
tom(a)tommorris.org)> wrote:
> Now this has been transferred to Wikimedia
UK, would it be possible
to
> remove the access logging on QRpedia to
ensure it complies with both
the
> letter and spirit of the WMF privacy
policy.
Is it possible to do that and retain the aggregated, anonymised
statistics which GLAM institutions and others deploying QRpedia find
useful? These may be analogous to Wikipedias page view stats.
That seems highly reasonable. The current issue is that the QRpedia
database has a complete log of which IPs looked up which pages and when.
(Which is fine, I'm not blaming Roger or Terence. That's a perfectly
reasonable thing to do with something you are starting. This isn't a
security hole or a privacy intrusion, it's a standard thing anyone would do
when building a project like this. But now it has reached a point of
maturity and is being taken under the wing of WMUK, we need to ensure that
it is compliant with the expectations of Wikimedia users.)
We need to anonymise the access data, aggregate it and then delete the
non-anonymised, non-aggregated data. I'm happy to fling code around and
figure out a way to do this. I've had a look at the existing code and it's
easy enough to understand. We could probably do with refactoring some of
the code too.
I'd suggest that it would be best for WMUK to adhere completely with the
Foundation's privacy policy (mentally substitute "chapter" and
"WMUK" in
the relevant places) even if the chapter is not formally bound by the
Foundation policy (I'm not a movement policy wonk, I don't know). In
addition, not holding on to access logs but only aggregate, anonymised data
means that we minimise the potential for problems under the Data Protection
Act or wider European data privacy law.
I'd suggest that we resolve these issues as soon as possible. The
QRpedia transfer was rather a slow process, it'd be nice if now that the
transfer has been agreed, we can make sure that we resolve these kinds of
issues in the next week or so (I rather prefer fixing issues when they
exist only in my head rather than when people are shouting like maniacs).
As I said, I'm happy to provide patches and code review in the next few
days.
WMUK staff/trustees: are there any plans for transferring the source
code over to Wikimedia infrastructure (Gerrit etc.)?
--
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>
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