For the privacy policy question, that box is standard for anything hosted with Cloud Services.
I'd trust Amir wouldn't do that but it reduces the responsibility of WMCS.
Thanks.
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 08:56, Count Count countvoncount123456@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
Thanks for providing another communication tool.
Some questions:
- Is there a reason why we are not using Wikimedia account SSO for the
chat?
- The Terms link leads directly to the Tech Code of Conduct. Shouldn't
it link to https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en instead?
After all terms are usually more than just a Code of Conduct.
- The linked privacy policy
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Chat/Privacy_Policy is
a bit scary. It states that there is no expectation of privacy as my chats
could be published at any time and that the administrators might have
access to my username/password combination, which should not at all be
necessary. Is that really the intent here?
Best regards,
Count Count
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:00 AM Amir Sarabadani ladsgroup@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations
happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related
discussion
groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides
being
scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those
platforms (for privacy reasons for example), these platforms use
proprietary and closed-source software, are outside Wikimedia
infrastructure and some harvest our personal data for profit.
IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it lacks basic functionalities
of
a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia Chat, a mattermost
instance
in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have:
* Ability to scrollback and read messages when you were offline* Push notification and email notification* You don't need to get a cloak to hide your IP from others* Proper support for sharing media* Two factor authentication* A proper mobile app support* Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's extremely important)* Profile pictures* Ability to ping everyone with @here* much much more.You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to https://chat.wmcloud.org, anyone
can
make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social suite [1], the oher
similar project is "Wikimedia Meet". [2]
Some notes:
- This is done in my volunteer capacity and has been maintained by a
group
of volunteers. If you're willing to join the team (either technical or
enforcing CoC, kicking out spammers, other daily work), drop me a
message.
- Privacy policy of Wikimedia Cloud applies: https://w.wiki/aQW
- As a result, all messages older than 90 days get automatically deleted.
- As a Wikimedia Cloud project, all of discussions, private and public
are
covered by Code of conduct in technical spaces: https://w.wiki/AK$
Hope that would be useful for you, if you encounter any technical issues,
file a bug in the phabricator.
Best
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