Oliver Keyes, 10/04/2013 22:43:
Are you speaking of yourself here? :)As opposed to, speaking as a staffer? Well, I work for Product Development. So the chances of me giving binding policy statements on privacy issues are slim to none :).
No: as opposed to, a staffer that is also not a very active editor. :) The part on personal identifying information is one I understand and that's why I asked about it, but I don't think it should be on officewiki either; the other part on editor background I didn't understand, and I think staffer or editor is the same for that.
Speaking personally: I can't think of a single good reason why Victor's stuff should be released. [...]
Neither I do. I only asked if they *require* the compartmentalisation that e.g. Tom described – otherwise they could as well happen in a slightly different context (like for instance "use the internal wiki more", given that's the thread we're in).
An illustration here would be: I've got my engagement strategy for what became Page Curation on officewiki. It's a place where I can write and rewrite it, my bosses can check it for stupid, and if there *is* stupid we catch it before it causes problems.
This is fine. Way better than Google Docs shared with few people and then quickly lost!
Someone looking at that in isolation would go "this should totally be public! It's about engagement and deployment timetables,and we should be transparent about it".
I really can't imagine who this naïve someone could be. :)
And we are transparent about it - because the document later became public, in an altered and finalised form. But the two aren't necessarily linked together, which makes this rather opaque.
There are totally some docs on office-wiki that could do with more publicity. But there are far more that are private - fully private - for a good reason, and I'd imagine some of those that look ready for public release were, in fact, released.
Again, I'm not the one arguing for a "bias towards putting information on public wikis" for the sake of it, in this thread. ;-)
I know that some things are always going to be private, and I also think that we're not a totalitarian state, so even we officially disallowed anything to be private then people would just hide better (e.g. documents on private gdocs rather than private wikis; or the good old local hard disk + private email).
Nemo