[Foundation-l] (no subject)

Fri Apr 15 21:37:47 UTC 2005

Hello

>Scrambled user names would not solve the privacy issue. It would still
>be very easy to guess which watchlist belonged to which person based
>on which articles they were watching. I doubt, for example, that
>anyone else has all my user talk archives and other sub pages on their
>watchlist other than me.
>
Ermmmm on the Dutch wikipedia I have everybody's talkpage on my 
watchlist. Keeps me on track on discussions. But I am probably the 
exception .... :(

>
>I think the only solution to this is to ask people to opt-in to the
>study, and then the watchlists of only those people could be
>extracted.
>  
>
He can have my watchlist data it has over 4000 watched pages, so let;s 
see if that helps him further.

Walter/Waerth