[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy (urgent)

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/6/22 Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org>:
>
> Thomas Dalton writes:
>
>> 1) Still too long and rambling. It's clearly written with the
>> intention of educating users about privacy on Wikimedia projects,
>> rather than primarily as a binding policy on WMF, yet no user is ever
>> going to read it.
>
> I don't think education is exclusive as binding policy. Any policy we
> publish is going to have a binding effect, to the extent that people
> rely on our representations about what we do. That's why we have taken
> the pains to make the policy match our actual practice as completely
> as possible.

You'll note, I said "primarily as binding policy". I know it is
binding policy now, but that's not its primary function, its primary
function is clearly one of education, and that should be changed.