Overview
The Anti-Harassment Tools team is leading the cross-department program for implementing IP Masking. The IP Masking program kicked off in 2018 and has been recently reprioritized as an important workstream as concerns around data use and privacy are growing around the world with various governments introducing data laws. It is aimed at improving our users’ privacy, ensuring that they can contribute to our projects effectively and safely, as well as to address legal risk around publishing and retaining IP addresses.
The Data Products team needs to understand the impact that changing anonymous users to temp users will have across our datasets. Notable datasets that will be impacted are:
- MediaWiki History
- Geo Editors
- and Data Dumps
Acceptance Criteria
- Starting list of datasets that will be impacted
- Break the work down into epics based on known compatibility issues within affected data sets with rough estimation of time to complete
- Findings report that can be used to prioritize and estimate work required to mitigate the effects
- Decision record outlining the thinking behind a final go / no go decision