On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Stephen LaPorte wrote:
Hi all,
We wanted to let you know about a new site that we launched to support your
work on public policy and communicate how public policy affects the
Wikimedia projects to advocacy groups (
https://policy.wikimedia.org). The
site includes position statements on access, copyright, censorship,
intermediary liability, and privacy. We hope that it will make it easier
for advocacy groups to collaborate with the Wikimedia community on issues
within these areas.
Thanks Stephen for the update! At least we don't have another wiki :)
One little nit:
at the bottom of the pages we have:
Keep up-to-date with Wikimedia’s policy initiatives
[ email-address-field ] [ JOIN button ]
The list admins will not give your email address to others.
Also there is this in the privacy policy:
Who has access
The Wikimedia Foundation staff may need access to your data to run and
improve the site. A few trusted volunteers can also access your email
address as administrators if you sign up for the mailing list.
I think the subscribe button lets people subscribe to this mailing list we
are using right now.
I think it is slightly inaccurate to say "The list admins will not
give your email address to others" as e-mail addresses
are revealed to participants during the discussion, and are
available via the mailing list administrative interface.
So if somebody expects they end-up on a some kind of
one-way annoucement mailing lists, this is not what they get.
Our "Wikimedia Sites" privacy policy has a better wording
here:
Other users. We provide several tools that allow users
to communicate
with each other. The communications may be covered by this Policy
while they pass through our systems, but the users who receive these
communications, and what they do with the communications once they
receive them, are not covered by this Policy. Examples include:
posting to Foundation-hosted email lists;
(...)
My suggestion would be to warn users in advance that they
subscribe to a public forum that is archived
and address information is also available to pretty much
everyone.
I don't think we should be changing archiving/configuration
settings of this list right now, just let the new subscribers
know, what they are doing.
Side note: maybe the piece about user-to-user communication
should be more exposed on the main privacy policy page - I was searching for
this wording because I knew it's there, I didn't realize
I needed to unfold the
"More on what this Privacy Policy doesn’t cover" template ]]
~Marcin