Forgot a link to an article which describes very well privacy on Wikipedia! ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes John at Darkstar skrev: > We need tools to track user behavior inside Wikipedia. As it is now we > know nearly nothing at all about user behavior and nearly all people > saying anything about users at Wikipedia makes gross estimates and wild > guesses. > > User privacy on Wikipedia is is close to a public hoax, pages are > transfered unencrypted and with user names in clear text. Anyone with > access to a public hub is able to intercept and identify users, in > addition to _all_ websites that are referenced during an edit on > Wikipedia through correlation of logs. > > Compared to this the whole previous discussion about the Iranian steward > is somewhat strange, if not completely ridiculous. > > Get real, the whole system and access to it is completely open! > > John > > Neil Harris skrev: >> Tim 'avatar' Bartel wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> recently the report of the KnowPrivacy [1] study - a research project >>> by the School of Information from University of California in Berkeley >>> - hit the German media [2]. >>> >>> It came to the conclusion that "All of the top 50 websites contained >>> at least one web bug at some point in a one month time period." [3] >>> which includes wikipedia.org. >>> >>> This is very troubleing and irritating for some of our (German) users >>> who are very sensitive to data privacy topics. So I established >>> contact to Brian W. Carver (University of California) who connected me >>> to David Cancel, the maintainer of Ghostery, which was used to >>> identify the web bugs. David wrote me today: >>> >>> >>>> The following web bug trackers were reported to us, on the following >>>> subdomains: >>>> Google Analytics - vls.wikipedia.org >>>> Doubleclick - hu.wikipedia.org >>>> Both were seen in yesterday's data so they're recent. We don't receive any >>>> page level information so that's as much detail as we have. Hope that >>>> helps. >>>> >>> I wasn't able to track down the Doubleclick web bug on the hungarian >>> Wikipedia, but Google Analytics web bug is integrated in every page of >>> the West Flemish Wikipedia via JavaScript [4]. >>> >>> Our privacy policy [5] states "The Wikimedia Foundation may keep raw >>> logs of such transactions [IP and other technical information], but >>> these will not be published or used to track legitimate users." and >>> "As a general principle, the access to, and retention of, personally >>> identifiable data in all projects should be minimal and should be used >>> only internally to serve the well-being of the projects." >>> >>> I think we should stop the current use of Google Analytics ASAP. >>> >>> Bye, Tim. >>> >>> >> Surely this is something which should be possible to block at the >> MediaWiki level, by suppressing the generation of any HTML that loads >> any indirect resources (scripts, iframes, images, etc.) whatsoever other >> than from a clearly defined whitelist of Wikimedia-Foundation-controlled >> domains? >> >> Doing this should completely stop site admins from adding web bugs. >> >> -- Neil >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
