[Foundation-l] Google Analytics on Wikimania site

[Gregory Maxwell]

Restricting site js and raw htm message editing to another user
group... Which has long seemed prudent but which has not been done
yet.



On 10/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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