There is an important difference here. The WMF does not publicly log the IP addresses of visitors to the site. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#your-use-of-wm-sites It does however publish the IP addresses of editors who are not logged in.
I could understand the elitist claim if the WMF were more privacy conscious of editors than readers. But it isn't, if anything the divide is a three way one, with unregistered editors as the ones who by default have least privacy
Regards
Jonathan
On 5 April 2015 at 21:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
I propose we run a study. We will survey random editors
I always find it curious that we had dozens or hundreds of threads on having IPs in history: this worry is very elitist, at most few millions people ever edited.
What about the hundreds millions users who never edited? What are *their* IPs being logged for? It would be rather trivial to do as the IA does: http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/reader-privacy-at-the-internet-archive/
I'll start worrying about the millions when we have solved privacy issues for the billions.
Nemo
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