On 28/12/2007, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Now please, I say this in good faith: You might want to beef up that privacy policy. Most message boards include statements like not sharing IP addresses with third parties unless required by law, not selling the mailing list, explicitly stating that one's email address will be visible to other users (like it is here on wiki-en-l), etc. They could be built into the registration form, as an alternative. I'm offering these suggestions because privacy is a concern to a lot of people who have an interest in Wikipedia (whether registered users or not), and these questions are likely to recur.
UC's been a Wikipedian since it was wikipedia.com, and I'd trust him with all sorts of evil details. But I'm sure there's wording out there for a suitable privacy policy all ready to use, and pointers would be most useful.
(I occasionally wonder at how valuable wikien-l is, and have recently considered roughly fortnightly asking the other listmods to with me ask the Foundation to shut the thing as less useful than nothing. It's been better in the last few months, but still not quite fit for human consumption. I dunno.)
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