Anthere wrote:
I guess that this policy is approved for now. if you have further comments, please add them in the talk page. I archived all the discussions, if you wish some to be kept on the live page, please move them back.
Can we have some clarifications of "disruptive" (as in "Where the user has been vandalising pages or persistently behaving in a disruptive way") and "reasonably necessary" and "safety" (as in "Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the Wikimedia Foundation, its users or the public.") from the Board regarding the Foundation's privacy policy, just so that everyone is crystal clear about what circumstances this personal information may be released?
What does "If the user has said they're from somewhere and the IP confirms it, it's not releasing private information to confirm it if needed." mean?
What does "generally" in "Revealing the country is generally not personally identifiable (e.g. "User:Querulous is coming in from the UK, User:Sockpuppet is coming in from Canada")." mean?
I'm still not happy with the idea that access to personal information can be given to people on the say-so that they will behave. Yes, the people who this will be given to are going to be some of the most trustworthy Wikipedians there are, but this is *personal information*. We should have some kind of legal agreement in place so there are no excuses.
Chris