[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

Tue Aug 3 07:25:03 UTC 2010

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:13 AM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, reading the Privacy Policy[10] of the Wikimedia Foundation, you can
> see:
>
> User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User
> contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login
> status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users edited
> and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user
> contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
>
> The privacy policy is clear. Your number of edits is public. And it can be
> published in aggregated forms by other uses. And if you edit Wikipedia, you
> accept the Privacy Policy. Also, on the top of the Privacy Policy page you
> can read:
>
> The content of this page is an official policy approved by the Wikimedia
> Foundation Board of Trustees. This policy may not be circumvented, eroded,
> or ignored on local Wikimedia projects.
>
> But now, German Wikipedia has an "official local privacy policy" which is
> opposed to that.

No. The privacy policy tells which information, and under which
circumstances *may* be divulged. It is not against the policy to
provide less information than that, only to provide more information.
At least, that is how I always read the privacy policy.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com