On May 16, 2018 at 1:00:13 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) (greg@freephile.com) wrote:
Bump.
Is anything happening at WMF to assist corporate compliance directors and site administrators, who run MediaWiki, in their obligations with respect to GDPR?
May 25th is right around the corner. Projects like Drupal, CiviCRM, Discourse, Platform.sh; plus every major software vendor and social website is announcing their compliance with GDPR and/or has a publicly visible project and discussion about compliance. I can't find any information regarding GDPR compliance with regards to websites powered by MediaWiki. The 'Scrum of Scrums' message from today does not mention GDPR. I did find information about how Wikimedia Sweden is tackling the issue. [1]
[1] https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kategori:GDPR
Part of the draft Wikimedia Foundation annual plan for this coming fiscal year (starting July 1) includes work on GDPR compliance: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/CDP1.... Full disclosure, I am not involved in this program, but have some familiarity with the Foundation’s efforts toward privacy and security.
Technically speaking the final plan hasn’t been approved yet (that’s up to the board) but I think what will end up being approved will be materially similar to this current draft.
Cheers,
James Hare