[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy: 2 concerns

Sat Jun 14 22:07:51 UTC 2008

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello participants !
> (...)

I understand this is a draft.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but this may be the global privacy policy
affecting all projects.

However there's a definitely bias towards both 1) english speaking
world and 2) english wikipedia.

Excerpt:
* ''Whether you register with your real name or with a pseudonym, you
should note that registered users may gain more access to the
Wikimedia projects. For example, only registered users can create a
new page on the Wikipedia. (See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels.)''

# THE Wikipedia is NOT the english wikipedia
# That statement is false in most wikis.

I just want people working on this to be extra careful to write a good
policy taking in account all projects and languages, not focusing on
the needs of the english wikipedia. ~~~~