Hi all,

As the Board have been rather slow with publicising the new privacy policy, I have taken the step of adding a notice to the bottom of [[MediaWiki:Copyrightstext]] on the English-language Wikipedia (the text which is displayed when you click "Edit this page"), which mentions that if you are editing anonymously, your IP address will be publically and permanently associated with the edits, and if you're editing while logged in, your IP address will be stored for around 2 weeks.

Someone has also added a link to the privacy policy on the bottom of every page.

I urge admins on all the various projects to update their project with this information - make it clear that editing will mean that some personally-identifiable information is kept about the contributor.

Chris