On May 16, 2018 at 1:00:13 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) (greg(a)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/CDP…gt;.
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