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Consult legal about A/B test instrumentation
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Task overview

This task involves the work with making sure legal is comfortable with how we are planning to implement the VE as default A/B test

Changes to communicate to legal

What about the schema is changing?

  • We are added a new field – anonymous_user_token – to the EditAttemptStep schema
  • The anonymous_user_token field will contain a temporarily-assigned unique ID
  • The anonymous_user_token field will only affect anonymous users included in the A/B test.
  • These changes are reflected in this diff: Add anonymous user token field

Why are we making these changes?

Questions for legal

  • By further de-anonymizing IP editors, would we be putting editors to these wikis at risk?
    • If yes, are there certain wikis in this list that we should exclude IP from being included in the test?
  • Is it okay for us to create a persistent identifier for anonymous contributors (doing this this would make anonymous contributors "less anonymous")?

"Done"

  • Send legal request for instrumentation approval
  • Legal has given us feedback about what – if any – changes need to be made to the test design for it to comply with Foundation policies.

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"Closing" this task considering the below. Thanks for resolving this so quickly, @JTannerWMF.

We received Legal approval. Leighanna's response: It sounds like you've come up with a good, privacy-protective experiment! The plan for implementing and retaining the data from anonymous_user_token sounds good to me. You're good to go.

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