2008/6/22 Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org:
Thomas Dalton writes:
- Still too long and rambling. It's clearly written with the
intention of educating users about privacy on Wikimedia projects, rather than primarily as a binding policy on WMF, yet no user is ever going to read it.
I don't think education is exclusive as binding policy. Any policy we publish is going to have a binding effect, to the extent that people rely on our representations about what we do. That's why we have taken the pains to make the policy match our actual practice as completely as possible.
You'll note, I said "primarily as binding policy". I know it is binding policy now, but that's not its primary function, its primary function is clearly one of education, and that should be changed.