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
I think including this information in the privacy policy and linking every project to that would make more sense that putting people off editing by having all this text on the actual edit page. Addressing whether we should be publicly displaying these IPs forever might be a better option than just trying to scare users into logging in. If the privacy policy is linked, please link to the official version on wikimediafoundation.org rather than to non-updated local copies.
Angela.
Anyway, such a disclaimer is mandatory under EU regulations. Though, I don't think the wording of the disclaimer is extremely important BUT...
It should better show that the user agrees with the use of his personal data by wikipedia.
For example,
By editing Wikipedia, YOU AGREE THAT your [[IP address]] (which is [[personally identifiable information]]) will be recorded. If you are not logged in, your IP address will be publicly associated with your edits. If you are logged in, your IP address will not be publicly displayed. Please read our [[wikipedia:privacy policy|privacy policy]].
That simple modification, but I think it is important.
Angela wrote:
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
I think including this information in the privacy policy and linking every project to that would make more sense that putting people off editing by having all this text on the actual edit page. Addressing whether we should be publicly displaying these IPs forever might be a better option than just trying to scare users into logging in. If the privacy policy is linked, please link to the official version on wikimediafoundation.org rather than to non-updated local copies.
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