[WikiEN-l] Privacy policy and editing anonymously notice.

Thu Oct 27 11:26:36 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:
> Firstly, I must apologise for being so terse and shitty on IRC last night.

No you must not! It's fine.

> My suggested wording is:
> 
>     All edits to Wikipedia are recorded and visible, with the [[IP
> address]] they are from. Your IP address is publicly visible on edits
> where you are not [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]]. See
> [[wikipedia:privacy policy|privacy policy]].
> 
> Says all we need, promises nothing.

That's good, I would prefer that we ask people to "read" the privacy 
policy rather than just "see" it though.

> If this is important enough to add for Foundation reasons, it's
> important enough to get right. For *hundreds* of projects, not just
> en:.

It's absolutely important to get right. I'm glad that we've got some 
discussion going over it.

Chris