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Bug 49133 - Create partial SQL dump of watchlist table
Create partial SQL dump of watchlist table
Status: NEW
Product: Datasets
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Ariel T. Glenn
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Depends on:
Blocks: 25602
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Reported: 2013-06-04 15:11 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2013-06-05 13:37 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description MZMcBride 2013-06-04 15:11:17 UTC
Create a partial SQL dump of the watchlist table that includes:

* wl_namespace
* wl_title
Comment 1 Ariel T. Glenn 2013-06-04 15:34:51 UTC
I don't know that we can do this for privacy reasons. I'd like to have other folks weigh in on this request.
Comment 2 Nemo 2013-06-04 15:36:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't know that we can do this for privacy reasons. I'd like to have other
> folks weigh in on this request.

Do you mean that even with just those columns one could reverse-engineer who's the corresponding user?
Comment 3 Ariel T. Glenn 2013-06-04 15:38:00 UTC
I mean it's not even available via the api.  Maybe one can get a 'list of all watched pages' (need to check that).
Comment 4 Nemo 2013-06-04 15:42:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> I mean it's not even available via the api.  Maybe one can get a 'list of all
> watched pages' (need to check that).

I doubt it, otherwise it would make little sense to restrict [[Special:UnwatchedPages]] to sysops. If that's your concern,
1) it's not about privacy,
2) I'm not sure it affects the anti-vandalism rationale as extracting that data would still be a non-trivial effort not worth the minor gain a vandal would get from it.

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