For the privacy policy question, that box is standard for anything hosted
with Cloud Services.
I'd trust Amir wouldn't do that but it reduces the responsibility of WMCS.
Thanks.
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 08:56, Count Count <countvoncount123456(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi!
Thanks for providing another communication tool.
Some questions:
- Is there a reason why we are not using Wikimedia account SSO for the
chat?
- The Terms link leads directly to the Tech Code of Conduct. Shouldn't
it link to
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en
instead?
After all terms are usually more than just a Code of Conduct.
- The linked privacy policy
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Chat/Privacy_Policy>
is
a bit scary. It states that there is no expectation of privacy as my
chats
could be published at any time and that the administrators might have
access to my username/password combination, which should not at all be
necessary. Is that really the intent here?
Best regards,
Count Count
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:00 AM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Due to the current situation, there are more and
more collaborations
happening online instead. and now you can see
Wikimedia-related
discussion
groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and
many more. Besides
being
scattered and inaccessible to people who
don't have accounts in those
platforms (for privacy reasons for example),
these platforms use
proprietary and closed-source software, are
outside Wikimedia
infrastructure and some harvest our personal data
for profit.
IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it
lacks basic functionalities
of
a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia
Chat, a mattermost
instance
in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have:
* Ability to scrollback and read messages
when you were offline
* Push notification and email notification
* You don't need to get a cloak to hide
your IP from others
* Proper support for sharing media
* Two factor authentication
* A proper mobile app support
* Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's
extremely important)
* Profile pictures
* Ability to ping everyone with @here
* much much more.
You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to
https://chat.wmcloud.org, anyone
can
make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social
suite [1], the oher
similar project is "Wikimedia Meet".
[2]
Some notes:
* This is done in my volunteer capacity and has
been maintained by a
group
of volunteers. If you're willing to join the
team (either technical or
enforcing CoC, kicking out spammers, other daily
work), drop me a
message.
* Privacy policy of Wikimedia Cloud applies:
https://w.wiki/aQW * As a result, all messages older than 90 days
get automatically deleted.
* As a Wikimedia Cloud project, all of
discussions, private and public
are
covered by Code of conduct in technical spaces:
https://w.wiki/AK$
Hope that would be useful for you, if you
encounter any technical issues,
file a bug in the phabricator.
Best
--
Amir (he/him)
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