Dear all, I am pleased to announce that Wikimedia UK has reached an agreement with Roger Bamkin and Terence Eden regarding the ownership of QRpedia. The intellectual property in QRpedia and the qrpedia.org and qrwp.orgdomains will be transferred to Wikimedia UK, which will maintain and support the development of the QRpedia platform for the future. Roger and Terence will act as honorary advisors to Wikimedia UK in this, as well as retaining their moral rights of attribution, but will not receive any financial consideration for this. I am very pleased we have reached an agreement. I look forward to Wikimedia UK working to support QRpedia's future development. This includes defining our future involvement with the MonmouthpediA and GibraltarpediA projects. A fuller statement will follow. Regards, Chris Keating -- Chris Keating Chair, Wikimedia UK @chriskeating chris.keating(a)wikimedia.org.uk Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company registered in England and Wales. Registered Company No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

letter and spirit of the WMF privacy policy.

On Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 20:08, Andy Mabbett wrote: tom(a)tommorris.org)&gt; wrote: to the That seems highly reasonable. The current issue is that the QRpedia database has a complete log of which IPs looked up which pages and when. (Which is fine, I'm not blaming Roger or Terence. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do with something you are starting. This isn't a security hole or a privacy intrusion, it's a standard thing anyone would do when building a project like this. But now it has reached a point of maturity and is being taken under the wing of WMUK, we need to ensure that it is compliant with the expectations of Wikimedia users.) We need to anonymise the access data, aggregate it and then delete the non-anonymised, non-aggregated data. I'm happy to fling code around and figure out a way to do this. I've had a look at the existing code and it's easy enough to understand. We could probably do with refactoring some of the code too. I'd suggest that it would be best for WMUK to adhere completely with the Foundation's privacy policy (mentally substitute "chapter" and "WMUK" in the relevant places) even if the chapter is not formally bound by the Foundation policy (I'm not a movement policy wonk, I don't know). In addition, not holding on to access logs but only aggregate, anonymised data means that we minimise the potential for problems under the Data Protection Act or wider European data privacy law. I'd suggest that we resolve these issues as soon as possible. The QRpedia transfer was rather a slow process, it'd be nice if now that the transfer has been agreed, we can make sure that we resolve these kinds of issues in the next week or so (I rather prefer fixing issues when they exist only in my head rather than when people are shouting like maniacs). As I said, I'm happy to provide patches and code review in the next few days. WMUK staff/trustees: are there any plans for transferring the source code over to Wikimedia infrastructure (Gerrit etc.)? -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

Is it possible to do that and retain the aggregated, anonymised statistics which GLAM institutions and others deploying QRpedia find useful? These may be analogous to Wikipedias page view stats.

The intellectual property in QRpedia and the qrpedia.org and qrwp.org domains will be transferred to Wikimedia UK

operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.

Hi Andreas, Yes, of course. The delay has basically been down to the risk of patent litigation. At least one Wikimedia chapter has received letters from people who purport that QRpedia infringes on various patents. We do not believe this is the case and do not believe the probability of being involved in actual litigation is high. However if it did happen it could be very costly. So we have been taking advice on how to deal with this risk, and have reached a solution which will work. Roger and Terence have been very patiently waiting for this to be sorted out - apologies to them, and everyone else waiting for an outcome, for the delay. Chris

hi chris, what will the solution be? On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Andreas Kolbe &lt;jayen466(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com&gt; of it