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post Mon 15th September 2008, 5:12pm
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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>

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post Mon 15th September 2008, 9:11pm
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The curious question here is: does each project actually use the standard Mediawiki software we're watching developers revert war over, here? Is this the EXACT trunk and SQL schema that English Wikipedia uses, and that Commons users, and Meta, and WikiQuote?

IF it is, someone with enough familiarity with all of this and the public records may be able to ferret out all sorts of valuable information.
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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
Kelly Martin   [quote name='Rootology' post='129926' date='Mon ...   Tue 16th September 2008, 1:02am
Random832   The curious question here is: does each project a...   Tue 16th September 2008, 12:34am
Rootology   Last night I poked around all the listed materials...   Fri 19th September 2008, 5:57pm
Kelly Martin   Last night I poked around all the listed material...   Sat 20th September 2008, 2:31am
Krimpet   Last night I poked around all the listed material...   Sat 20th September 2008, 2:46am
tarantino   I think it can be confidently said, then, that CU...   Sat 20th September 2008, 2:44pm

 

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