The Wikimedia Cloud terms of use, which itself is meant for the wiki operators, has some boilerplates:
Labs had a lack-of-privacy policy that never made it out of draft status:
I imagine we'll go with something low-key like those. We don't really collect personal information as we use SUL (note to self: delete old pre-SUL passwords from the database), and the Wikimedia Cloud proxy removes IP addresses from the requests. We do collect email addresses as there is no way to send messages without that, and they are taken from Wikimedia wikis, so I guess there should be a clear warning about that. (I filed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241039 about avoiding email collection some time ago, it did not generate much interest.)
We should just go with the technical CoC (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct ) as it already exists and has the required institutional infrastructure set up, and in practice I don't think the contents of the CoC matter much (other than people complaining when there isn't any). Admin culture is more important, but we are not at the size yet where even that would really matter.
Arguably the technical CoC already applies, as it covers all "development-oriented spaces operated by the Wikimedia Foundation", and
wmflabs.org is one of those; but we should probably link it from the footer.
I am sure we'll easily agree on the first two, just taking the respective policies from the other WMF Wikis and link them accordingly.
The WMF ToU and PP is huge, most of it is irrelevant, and a lot of it is infeasible, due to the relatively lax controls on who can access Wikimedia Cloud hosts.
Visual Editor depends on the Parsoid service. Parsoid has been ported to PHP, and the port will be bundled with MediaWiki soon (in theory by the MW 1.35 release, which is in a month). Visual Editor should just work at that point, so unless there is some reason for urgency, I don't really want to go through the effort of setting it up the traditional node-service-based way.