[WikiEN-l] IP records of page views?

Mark Richards marich712000 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 16 04:57:57 UTC 2004


Angela - can you explain / point to where this is
explained? Having this information more readily
available seems a lot more sinister.
Mark

--- Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel Mayer wrote: 
> > >Speaking of which, it would be nice for stewards
> to have the ability to check
> > >those logs in these cases. Our developers seem to
> be overworked as it is.
> > >-- mav
> 
> If a new system is implemented whereby IPs are
> stored in the database
> and not just in the log files, I would have no
> objection to stewards
> having access to these. However, until then, I do
> not support stewards
> being given access to the same logs that the
> developers currently have
> to check for IPs. Firstly, it would be largely a
> waste of time as they
> are too large to search through efficiently, and
> secondly, they
> include details of not only page saves, but also
> page views. This
> would be too much of a privacy violation if stewards
> had that sort of
> information.
> 
> Angela.
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