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Tim Starling tstarling at wikimedia.org
Thu Sep 11 03:11:52 UTC 2008

Jon wrote:
> I could not find this in the privacy policy... however, what is
> Wikimedia's current data retention policy? That is to ask, how long do
> projects keep data for use in tools such as checkuser?

CheckUser data used to be kept for 3 months, but Aaron recently increased
it to 5 months. I'm not sure why or on whose authority.

<http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CheckUser/CheckUser.php?r1=39734&r2=40620>

-- Tim Starling



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gomi   Checkuser data retention   Mon 15th September 2008, 5:12pm
Rootology   Kelly said recently that the Checkuser data was mo...   Mon 15th September 2008, 5:25pm
Kelly Martin   Kelly said recently that the Checkuser data was mo...   Mon 15th September 2008, 5:38pm
gomi   I should hasten to add that there are probably sit...   Mon 15th September 2008, 5:48pm
C H   Note, Tim Starling has since reverted the change t...   Mon 15th September 2008, 8:59pm
anthony   Who is this developer Aaron Aaron Schulz a.k.a....   Tue 16th September 2008, 2:53am
jch   [quote name='C H' post='129925' date='Mon 15th Se...   Fri 19th September 2008, 6:29am
Lar   [quote name='anthony' post='130007' date='Tue 16t...   Fri 19th September 2008, 4:28pm
jch   [quote name='anthony' post='130007' date='Tue 16...   Sat 20th September 2008, 2:10am
Rootology   Links to the mail reversions?   Mon 15th September 2008, 9:01pm
C H   [quote name='Rootology' post='129926' date='Mon 1...   Mon 15th September 2008, 9:15pm
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Rootology   The curious question here is: does each project ac...   Mon 15th September 2008, 9:11pm
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