[Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

[Pedro Sanchez]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will say though that trying to control the ways that already public
> data might be aggregated is pretty unexpected from my American
> viewpoint.   It is also seems pretty clear that aggregation of edit
> statistics is perfectly acceptable within the larger WMF Privacy
> Policy.  Hence, I think the German Wikipedia community would find it
> nearly impossible to enforce their position on privacy with respect to
> the actions of most external third parties.  It even seems likely to
> me that if the same information appeared on EN or Meta, that they
> would have trouble finding a consensus for deletion within those
> communities.
>
> So, if the Germans wish to have a more restrictive privacy policy
> governing their own content, then that seems fine, but I suspect they
> would have a difficult uphill battle to extend that decision beyond
> their own immediate sphere of influence.
>
> -Robert Rohde
>

That was basicaly my point I think you express it much more clearly.