QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 9th September 2009, 10:06pm)
I had heard that it was 90 days as well, but I've heard rumors that it has been set to an even longer time or even set to indefinite retention.
Well here's the settings right
here:
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# How long to keep CU data?
$wgCUDMaxAge = 3 * 30 * 24 * 3600; // 3 months
Aaron briefly set it to "5 months" in
r40620 (
diff). However Tim reverted this in
r40847 (
diff). It remains unclear whether this change ever went live on WMF sites, but I recall there was a big argument about it on the mailing list.
Of course this is just the default setting for the checkuser extension, and can be over-ridden in the local settings of a particular wiki. For what it's worth
these pages do not contain anything like that. It may on general principle be too much to assume that they are a 100% faithful representation of the config files the WMF wikis are actually using, but it seems odd that the devs would make this much fuss over the default setting if they had been secretly over-riding it all the while—unless this was a staged incident... (IMG:
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QUOTE(Herschelkrustofsky @ Thu 10th September 2009, 6:07am)
My question is, since I stopped editing at Wikipedia as of May 2, 2006, what would be the basis for continued claims that new accounts were my socks, citing checkuser, unless someone at the project were maintaining a record of my AOL IP ranges from days of yore?
Even if they did keep that information it would not be very useful. "Edits from AOL" + "interested in LaRouche" would probably be enough criteria to ban anyone. Granted I don't know how many "LaRouchies" exist (having never met one outside of WP/WR), but based on an estimated 7.7% market share lingering as of 2008 there'd have to be at least a dozen using AOL. Maybe more if destructive loyalty ships in pairs.
But unless you actually used the AOL browser there's a good chance you edited from the infamous "172" range. Coincidence? (IMG:
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