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gomi	Mon 15th September 2008, 5:12pm Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 3,022 Joined: Fri 17th Nov 2006, 6:38pm Member No.: 565	here: QUOTE 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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C H	Mon 15th September 2008, 8:59pm Post #2
Junior Member Group: Contributors Posts: 51 Joined: Wed 19th Apr 2006, 6:50pm Member No.: 142	Note, Tim Starling has since reverted the change to the CheckUser data maximum age, with the comment "If you want such a policy change, have an open discussion about it, don't get together with some troll-hunting mates on a private mailing list and make your own rules." That makes me curious as to what he's talking about. Who is this developer Aaron and who are his "troll-hunting mates?" Is the private mailing list being referred to the global checkuser list or another one? I notice that Aaron is the one who added the email logging to checkuser, which Brion reverted, and then added a "toned-down version" of the email logging, which Brion also reverted.

anthony	Tue 16th September 2008, 2:53am Post #3
Postmaster Group: Regulars Posts: 2,034 Joined: Mon 30th Jul 2007, 1:31am Member No.: 2,132	QUOTE(C H @ Mon 15th September 2008, 8:59pm) Who is this developer Aaron Aaron Schulz a.k.a. User:Voice of All? Is there an up-to-date list of all CVS commiters?

jch	Fri 19th September 2008, 6:29am Post #4
Quickly running out of Cache Group: Contributors Posts: 136 Joined: Sun 5th Aug 2007, 3:56am Member No.: 2,249 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 16th September 2008, 2:53am) QUOTE(C H @ Mon 15th September 2008, 8:59pm) Who is this developer Aaron Aaron Schulz a.k.a. User:Voice of All? Is there an up-to-date list of all CVS commiters? http://svn.wikimedia.org/users.php Also, it's SVN, not CVS. I think CVS is a drugstore...

Lar	Fri 19th September 2008, 4:28pm Post #5
"His blandness goes to 11!" Group: Regulars Posts: 2,116 Joined: Wed 26th Dec 2007, 6:04pm From: A large LEGO storage facility Member No.: 4,290	QUOTE(jch @ Fri 19th September 2008, 2:29am) QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 16th September 2008, 2:53am) QUOTE(C H @ Mon 15th September 2008, 8:59pm) Who is this developer Aaron Aaron Schulz a.k.a. User:Voice of All? Is there an up-to-date list of all CVS commiters? http://svn.wikimedia.org/users.php Also, it's SVN, not CVS. I think CVS is a drugstore... SVN aims to be a replacement for CVS, which in turn aimed to be a replacement for RCS... These are all "Open" version control systems as opposed to say, PVCS or VSS, which are "Closed" (with respect to version control this refers to whether a module is locked or whether multiple can work on it at once and then you merge the changes, not Open/Closed in the free software sense)

jch	Sat 20th September 2008, 2:10am Post #6
Quickly running out of Cache Group: Contributors Posts: 136 Joined: Sun 5th Aug 2007, 3:56am Member No.: 2,249 WP user page - talk check - contribs	QUOTE(Lar @ Fri 19th September 2008, 4:28pm) QUOTE(jch @ Fri 19th September 2008, 2:29am) QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 16th September 2008, 2:53am) QUOTE(C H @ Mon 15th September 2008, 8:59pm) Who is this developer Aaron Aaron Schulz a.k.a. User:Voice of All? Is there an up-to-date list of all CVS commiters? http://svn.wikimedia.org/users.php Also, it's SVN, not CVS. I think CVS is a drugstore... SVN aims to be a replacement for CVS, which in turn aimed to be a replacement for RCS... These are all "Open" version control systems as opposed to say, PVCS or VSS, which are "Closed" (with respect to version control this refers to whether a module is locked or whether multiple can work on it at once and then you merge the changes, not Open/Closed in the free software sense) That was what we Internets users call a "joke" Lar. I think you're spending too much time around your OTRS-using humorless sweetie.

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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

Rootology The curious question here is: does each project ac... Mon 15th September 2008, 9:11pm

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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