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

[Florence Devouard]

Nathan wrote:
> I've set up a draft version of the policy to demonstrate what issues I think
> can be addressed:
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Avruch/PPdraft
> 
> It addresses some issues raised on this list and some I identified,
> particularly:
> 
> * Consistent terminology: Projects are variously referred to as projects,
> wikis, WMprojects, WMProjects, Wikiprojects, etc. Wikiprojects (to take an
> example) means something else entirely at least on the English Wikipedia,
> and so should  probably be avoided. In most cases I've changed the usage to
> simply "project" or "projects." Wikimedia Foundation is variously Wikimedia,
> WMF and Wikimedia Foundation (although I didn't see the term WMF defined, it
> may have been). I've made most of those instances consistent.


Hello

Just on that particular point, it seems that within the organization, 
the terminology now generally used is "wikimedia projects".

I do not think using "projects" is a good idea as the term is not 
specific enough. Better keep this term to describe stuff such as "DVD 
publishing" or "PDF generation" etc...

However, I object to the use of the term "wikimedia foundation projects" 
or "wmf projects". WMF do not own the projects any more than other 
organizations, and the existence of most projects is actually older than 
the existence of the Foundation. I'll add that in people's mind, it 
could tend to give more weight to the idea that WMF is the one in charge 
(increase legal exposure).

ant