I can imagine that this alternate privacy policy is actually covering a
wider range of sites that are non-wiki, such as the fundraising
infrastructure and the survey websites, voting websites etc. Rather than
having a different privacy policy for each of those instances, I think it
is actually clearer to have two policies: one for the content delivery (the
'wikis') that have practically zero cookie tracking to the best of my
knowledge and one for the other websites that may require other methods to
be functional.
As a sidenote, I think it actually could be a totally fair statement to say
that
is, relative to the content projects, not a
'major site' of the WMF. It is supporting infrastructure at best. (no
offense :) )
Lodewijk
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:23 AM Chico Venancio <chicocvenancio(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Indeed an special watered down privacy policy is
strange. It is worth
noting that the standard privacy policy[1] does not state that it only
applies to "wiki based websites" but instead lists what it does and does
not cover[2], the only interpretation that allows a separate policy for the
new website weirdly leaves*
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/> as being defined to not be a major site
of WMF. *
Irregardless of possible poor wording of both privacy policies, I find it
strange that the main website for WMF has a tracking pixel and forces
visitors to provide users' personal information (as defined by either
privacy policies) to Google and
Wordpress.com.
Perhaps this is something WMF could revisit?
Best regards,
Chico Venancio
[
1]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
[
2]https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#coverage
2018-08-06 2:06 GMT-03:00 Yair Rand <yyairrand(a)gmail.com>om>:
There are several more issues I've noticed
with the new website:
* According to the notice at the bottom, the company "Automattic Inc." is
receiving all sorts of data about all visitors to the site, including
location information, cookie data, data from pixel tags/web beacons used
to
track visitors and target ads on other WordPress
sites, and other data.
* The "non-wiki privacy policy of the Wikimedia Foundation" linked at the
bottom is different than the regular privacy policy. Why is this?
* Much of the content is essentially English-Wikipedia-only. "Visit The
Teahouse for a friendly place to learn about editing" Most Wikipedias
don't
have teahouses or equivalents.
* In "Wikimedia projects": "Wikipedia - All the world's
knowledge". See
[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of
information]].
* "Working with partners like Google, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
UNESCO, Wikimedia...". I don't think most Wikimedians are okay with the
WMF
describing Google as among its partners. Nor the
Met or UNESCO, for that
matter.
* In the "Technology" section, there's a paragraph devoted to bragging
about how NASA has an internal Mediawiki wiki. I don't think that belongs
there.
* The actual Wikimedia Foundation Mission is kind of buried deep in the
site. The Mission is the definitive version of what the WMF is supposed
to
be doing, and I really think it should be
highlighted somewhere in a more
prominent position.
"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people
around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free
license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and
globally.
In collaboration with a network of chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation
provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for
the support and development of multilingual wiki projects and other
endeavors which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep
useful information from its projects available on the Internet free of
charge, in perpetuity."
-- Yair Rand
2018-08-03 17:12 GMT-04:00 Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>uk>:
> On 2 August 2018 at 02:51, Gregory Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
You can check it out for yourself here (you may
need to clear your
browser's cache):
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
The home page currently says:
" Everything on a Wikimedia site is available as Creative Commons
material. "
That is not true. Material includes:
* PD content (copyright expires; US government, etc)
* Fair-use copyright material.
In the latter case, suggesting otherwise could be harmful to our users.
Furthermore, the "Sesame Street" image used on the site's home page
and the linked article, is labelled on Commons: "This work might not
be available under a free license in the United States because it is
based on an artwork or sculpture that may be protected by copyright
under U.S. law."
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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