[Foundation-l] Google Analytics on Wikimania site

[David Gerard]

On 18/10/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/10/2007, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The analytics code instructs a visitor's web browser to communicate with
> > Google servers in a way that will provide Google with various user specific
> > information.  However, the privacy policy is built around what the WMF will
> > do with user information ...

> The letter is silent on such issues, as was noted last time we
> discussed Google Analytics, but the spirit is clear - and I think you
> would be very hard pressed to say "and we will consent to some random
> admin choosing to pass your reading information on to a third party
> with no constraints on what they can do with it" falls within the
> spirit of the policy.


Is there a way of blocking Google Analytics code from working on
Wikimedia sites, when some random admin decides to put it into site
interface code?


- d.