Publishing Wikipedia usage data with strong privacy guarantees

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Hauptverfasser: Adeleye, Temilola, Berghel, Skye, Desfontaines, Damien, Hay, Michael, Johnson, Isaac, Lemoisson, Cléo, Machanavajjhala, Ashwin, Magerlein, Tom, Modena, Gabriele, Pujol, David, Simmons-Marengo, Daniel, Triedman, Hal
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author Adeleye, Temilola
Berghel, Skye
Desfontaines, Damien
Hay, Michael
Johnson, Isaac
Lemoisson, Cléo
Machanavajjhala, Ashwin
Magerlein, Tom
Modena, Gabriele
Pujol, David
Simmons-Marengo, Daniel
Triedman, Hal
author_facet Adeleye, Temilola
Berghel, Skye
Desfontaines, Damien
Hay, Michael
Johnson, Isaac
Lemoisson, Cléo
Machanavajjhala, Ashwin
Magerlein, Tom
Modena, Gabriele
Pujol, David
Simmons-Marengo, Daniel
Triedman, Hal
contents For almost 20 years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been publishing statistics about how many people visited each Wikipedia page on each day. This data helps Wikipedia editors determine where to focus their efforts to improve the online encyclopedia, and enables academic research. In June 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation, helped by Tumult Labs, addressed a long-standing request from Wikipedia editors and academic researchers: it started publishing these statistics with finer granularity, including the country of origin in the daily counts of page views. This new data publication uses differential privacy to provide robust guarantees to people browsing or editing Wikipedia. This paper describes this data publication: its goals, the process followed from its inception to its deployment, the algorithms used to produce the data, and the outcomes of the data release.
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spellingShingle Publishing Wikipedia usage data with strong privacy guarantees
Adeleye, Temilola
Berghel, Skye
Desfontaines, Damien
Hay, Michael
Johnson, Isaac
Lemoisson, Cléo
Machanavajjhala, Ashwin
Magerlein, Tom
Modena, Gabriele
Pujol, David
Simmons-Marengo, Daniel
Triedman, Hal
Cryptography and Security
For almost 20 years, the Wikimedia Foundation has been publishing statistics about how many people visited each Wikipedia page on each day. This data helps Wikipedia editors determine where to focus their efforts to improve the online encyclopedia, and enables academic research. In June 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation, helped by Tumult Labs, addressed a long-standing request from Wikipedia editors and academic researchers: it started publishing these statistics with finer granularity, including the country of origin in the daily counts of page views. This new data publication uses differential privacy to provide robust guarantees to people browsing or editing Wikipedia. This paper describes this data publication: its goals, the process followed from its inception to its deployment, the algorithms used to produce the data, and the outcomes of the data release.
title Publishing Wikipedia usage data with strong privacy guarantees
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16298