[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy: 2 concerns

[Casey Brown]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hello participants !
>> (...)
>
>
> I understand this is a draft.
> And correct me if I'm wrong, but this may be the global privacy policy
> affecting all projects.
>
> However there's a definitely bias towards both 1) english speaking
> world and 2) english wikipedia.
>
> Excerpt:
> * ''Whether you register with your real name or with a pseudonym, you
> should note that registered users may gain more access to the
> Wikimedia projects. For example, only registered users can create a
> new page on the Wikipedia. (See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels.)''
>
> # THE Wikipedia is NOT the english wikipedia
> # That statement is false in most wikis.
>
> I just want people working on this to be extra careful to write a good
> policy taking in account all projects and languages, not focusing on
> the needs of the english wikipedia. ~~~~
>

This was already brought up on the talk page and we found a better
example. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Draft_Privacy_Policy_June_2008#III.2C_editing_histories>

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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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