[Foundation-l] Thank you for discussing my Top 25 Nonprofit LIst

Thu Oct 4 07:22:02 UTC 2007

Casey Brown wrote:
> This has recently been discussed and we probably wouldn't consent to that
> because it may give away too much private information.
> 
> On 10/3/07, Allan Benamer <abenamer at nonprofittechblog.org> wrote:
>> Ahhh -- understood. I guess we'll just have to live with the estimates
>> from
>> Quantcast and Compete in the meantime. I have a question though -- if a
>> service was willing to handle Wikipedia's load, would you use it? That is,
>> if Quantcast offered to do statistics gathering for Wikimedia, would
>> Wikimedia consent to it?

Specifically the IP addresses of users. Such log data as has been 
released has always been anonymized first.

-Gurch