[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

[emijrp]

2010/8/3 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:13 AM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Also, reading the Privacy Policy[10] of the Wikimedia Foundation, you can
> > see:
> >
> > User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User
> > contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login
> > status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users
> edited
> > and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user
> > contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users.
> >
> > The privacy policy is clear. Your number of edits is public. And it can
> be
> > published in aggregated forms by other uses. And if you edit Wikipedia,
> you
> > accept the Privacy Policy. Also, on the top of the Privacy Policy page
> you
> > can read:
> >
> > The content of this page is an official policy approved by the Wikimedia
> > Foundation Board of Trustees. This policy may not be circumvented,
> eroded,
> > or ignored on local Wikimedia projects.
> >
> > But now, German Wikipedia has an "official local privacy policy" which is
> > opposed to that.
>
> No. The privacy policy tells which information, and under which
> circumstances *may* be divulged.


And it says that the number of edits is public.


> It is not against the policy to provide less information than that, only to
> provide more information.
>

But it is against the policy to write a new policy which converts the number
of edits in a private data, until the user gives permission to be used and
published in statistics.


> At least, that is how I always read the privacy policy.
>
> --
> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
>
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