Hi everyone,
Several people have raised important questions on this list about the identification
policy as it applies to OTRS volunteers.
Together with interim counsel and other members of the community department, I have been
reviewing our compliance with, and interpretation of, Wikimedia Foundation policies
including the access to nonpublic data policy. Based on a risk assessment, we decided
that we needed more consistent identification of OTRS volunteers, and retention of
identification data..
Both on the OTRS mailing list and here, people have rightly pointed out the complexity of
this issue. More discussion is clearly needed, and we will therefore table the issue and
review it in more detail with our new General Counsel, Geoff, and with the community, once
Geoff has had an opportunity to be brought in and get acquainted with the community.
For those who have not sent identification yet, feel free to defer doing so. For those who
have provided ID, we will destroy it on request (we may have to again obtain it if we
finally conclude that retention is necessary).
pb
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Philippe Beaudette
Head of Reader Relations
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pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org
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