[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy (urgent)

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you, Nathan.  I would add that basic tech background should be
separated out into another document; and the use cases and motivation/intent
sections should be in a long appendix, leaving the actual Polcy section as
compact as possible.

I also left comments on the draft's talk page re: important details that are
being left out.  SJ

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've set up a draft version of the policy to demonstrate what issues I
> think
> can be addressed:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Avruch/PPdraft
>
> It addresses some issues raised on this list and some I identified,
> particularly:
>
> * Consistent terminology: Projects are variously referred to as projects,
> wikis, WMprojects, WMProjects, Wikiprojects, etc. Wikiprojects (to take an
> example) means something else entirely at least on the English Wikipedia,
> and so should  probably be avoided. In most cases I've changed the usage to
> simply "project" or "projects." Wikimedia Foundation is variously
> Wikimedia,
> WMF and Wikimedia Foundation (although I didn't see the term WMF defined,
> it
> may have been). I've made most of those instances consistent.
>
> * Editing for length: I think there are a number of paragraphs that could
> be
> condensed without losing readability or meaning. I've done a bit of that,
> most especially in the first half. Might not be able to save a huge amount
> of text this way, but there are definitely opportunities.
>
> * Formatting: A couple of formatting issues, actually. I've altered the
> header format to flow better and look better when displayed on Wiki, and
> made the use of headers, bullets, subheaders and bolding more consistent.
> I've removed the "Introduction" header just as a style difference, since
> its
> the first text in the document anyway.
>
> Mainly I think the policy works. Its definitely longer than most privacy
> policies, but its also far more comprehensively written. A couple good
> reasons for that - the Foundation has an opportunity to collect a lot more
> user data than most other sites, and its policy is aimed at limiting the
> Foundation and protecting the user rather than allowing maximum flexibility
> for the corporation and its protection. All it really needs is some good
> copyediting - for length, internal consistency and clarity.
>
> If you want, this version can be copied into the other draft version as a
> revision (and then reverted) so that the differences can be easily seen.
>
> Nathan
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