Pidgin-Linux

Pidgin (Linux) Users Required for a User Study

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The Networked and Distributed Computing Systems Lab (NDSL) needs
volunteers who use Pidgin (for Linux) as their Instant Messaging (IM) clients. We
have developed a small plugin which collects statistics regarding humans' typing
habits. Our goal is to learn the characteristics of human-generated messages so that
we can build a more effective tool to suppress spim transmitted by bots. Specifically,
we want to get timing information of each character that is entered by a human
in writing a chat message. Once you install the plugin, it will log the timestamp
of each character of your message into a file. This tool does not write actual
characters (only the timestamp) of the message. Therefore, user privacy regarding
content is preserved. Your timing data will strictly be used for research
purposes and will not be shared with any third party.

Download plugin for version:
2.10.0 [x86] [x86_64]
2.9.0 [x86] [x86_64]
2.8.0 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.11 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.10 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.9 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.8 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.7 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.6 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.5 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.4 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.3 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.2 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.1 [x86] [x86_64]
2.7.0 [x86] [x86_64]
2.6.6 [x86] [x86_64]
2.6.5 [x86] [x86_64]
2.6.4 [x86] [x86_64]
2.6.3 [x86] [x86_64]
2.6.2 [x86] [x86_64]
2.6.1 [x86] [x86_64]
2.6.0 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.9 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.8 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.7 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.6 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.5 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.4 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.3 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.2 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.1 [x86] [x86_64]
2.5.0 [x86] [x86_64]
Please report any issues/bugs you face to:How To Install
* The Linux version stores the log file in the user's home directory (~/.purple/msg_time.txt)

How to Install

A Pidgin plugin installation is a three step procedure.


Step 1: Make a plugins/ subdirectory in ~/.purple (if it does not exist by default).
Copy msg-timestamps.so (plugin file) to ~/.purple/plugins/ directory.


Step 2: Click on the 'Tools' option and press 'Plugins' from the menu bar.


Step 3: Select the plugin "Message Timestamps Plugin" from the Plugins window.
Finally 'Close' the window.