[Foundation-l] Note regarding status of privacy policy

Mon Aug 11 00:50:26 UTC 2008

Aphaia wrote:
> I found this thread now and forwarded it to translator-l, for asking
> for translation, if they think it appropriate: but there are only four
> days until the announced deadline.
>
> Michael, could you please extend it, say, one more week? For most of
> non-English community, regarding the time of translation, even if they
> luckily get their own language version of the draft, they may have
> only one or two days. Still one week is shorter, but better than
> nothing.
>   
Sure, I'll wait an extra week before asking the board to vote, although 
I don't want to delay much beyond that. Work on this initiative started 
even before our April board meeting, and at some point this particular 
segment needs to be brought to a conclusion. Which is not to say the 
policy will never again be revised or revisited - Mike is still making 
revisions based on feedback he's received.

I asked initially if there were any dealbreakers or aspects that were 
seriously misleading, and nobody's identified issues of that nature to 
me. So I'm still inclined to think the draft is good and, as a 
significant step forward from the existing policy, should be adopted 
"with all deliberate speed". I appreciate that there's considerable 
interest in how this relates to the Checkuser tool, even though that's 
mentioned only a handful of times. This draft is not trying to be the 
Checkuser policy, and as Sue has pointed out, that role and therefore 
the details of its policy are within the control of the community rather 
than the Wikimedia Foundation. But I certainly encourage people to 
review the policy and practices of their projects in light of the 
overall privacy policy.

(I'm sorry, I thought I heard something there. Did somebody say 
Volunteer Council?)

--Michael Snow