On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:13 AM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Also, reading the Privacy Policy[10] of the Wikimedia
Foundation, you can
see:
User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User
contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login
status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users edited
and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user
contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
The privacy policy is clear. Your number of edits is public. And it can be
published in aggregated forms by other uses. And if you edit Wikipedia, you
accept the Privacy Policy. Also, on the top of the Privacy Policy page you
can read:
The content of this page is an official policy approved by the Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees. This policy may not be circumvented, eroded,
or ignored on local Wikimedia projects.
But now, German Wikipedia has an "official local privacy policy" which is
opposed to that.
No. The privacy policy tells which information, and under which
circumstances *may* be divulged. It is not against the policy to
provide less information than that, only to provide more information.
At least, that is how I always read the privacy policy.
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André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com