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Author: HQCentral1

Description:
When going to the above page, I get this message:

"You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you
supplied.


"If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please try to contact
the Web site by using any e-mail address or phone number that may be listed on the
en.wikipedia.org home page.

"You can click Search to look for information on the Internet.

"HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden
Internet Explorer"

I've tried to load it using both my work and home computers. My home computer runs
Windows XP, and my work computer runs Windows 2000. I also tried using Opera at home. I
asked about it at "Wikipedia: Village pump (technical)," and Shardsofmetal replied that
it wasn't working for him, either.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm

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bz7568

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:25 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz7568.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Stats are offline for the moment pending resolution of a privacy issue.

HQCentral1 wrote:

What do you mean? Also, when will they will go back up again?

robchur wrote:

  1. A privacy issue has occurred, cue the legal fanfares. I'm not aware of what

happened, but I'm guessing the statistics generator included some information that
shouldn't be made public. Obviously, this becomes one of those hideous little legal
issues we have to tiptoe around, and the statistics were taken offline to prevent
anyone getting at that information.

  1. The statistics will be made available again when (a) any personal information or

similar is no longer available there and (b) when the scripts and tools are modified
such that they won't be re-generating this.

[mass-moving wikistats reports from Wikimedia→Statistics to Analytics→Wikistats to have stats issues under one Bugzilla product (see bug 42088) - sorry for the bugspam!]