On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I will say though that trying to control the ways that
already public
data might be aggregated is pretty unexpected from my American
viewpoint. It is also seems pretty clear that aggregation of edit
statistics is perfectly acceptable within the larger WMF Privacy
Policy. Hence, I think the German Wikipedia community would find it
nearly impossible to enforce their position on privacy with respect to
the actions of most external third parties. It even seems likely to
me that if the same information appeared on EN or Meta, that they
would have trouble finding a consensus for deletion within those
communities.
So, if the Germans wish to have a more restrictive privacy policy
governing their own content, then that seems fine, but I suspect they
would have a difficult uphill battle to extend that decision beyond
their own immediate sphere of influence.
-Robert Rohde
That was basicaly my point I think you express it much more clearly.