[Foundation-l] Privacy etc - merging data

[Lodewijk]

I am assuming that people will be warned and asked for permission in advance
to combine these databases? I for one would definitely have strong
objections against merging donation and edit data. Donations are real life,
edits are wikipedia-universe. Although I do realize that it is much more
convenient for staff to have this data combined, I find this objectionable
from the privacy point of view. (putting this in a new thread to seperate
discussions a bit) I am not sure of legal requirements in this field in the
US - but I hope Wikipedia will always adhere to also for example European
principles in this regard whether it is maybe or maybe not legally obliged
to.

Best,

Lodewijk

2010/7/16 Philippe Beaudette <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org>

> Hiya -
>
> I asked Danese, who is currently buried under about 20 pounds of stuff
> after coming back from Wikimania, to further describe the stakeholder
> database.  Her response is:
>
> Sue has a vision for a single master database that tracks our
> interactions with movement participants.  It is intended to help us
> better respond to requests from individuals by joining all the info we
> have from prior interactions with that person.  This will be
> particularly important as we grow the staff, because current
> onboarding time requires long "buddy system" pairings with existing
> staff to teach how to best interact.  So for instance, if you have had
> a Wikipedia account since 2005, have made enough edits to become, say,
> an Admin, have uploaded 100 images to Commons, have been a donor every
> year and have responded helpfully to many OTRS requests, there should
> be a quick way for a new staffer to learn those facts.  All of this
> information is available to the staff now, just not in an aggregated
> place.
>
> Danese
>
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Excirial wrote:
>
> > I have gone trough the report, and immediately noted the extremely
> > strong
> > growth of the foundation in terms of personal (Nearly doubling the
> > amount
> > two years in a row). Generally i am not a fan of such fast growth as
> > it
> > often leads to bloating; but seeing the the rest of the plan looks
> > fine i
> > presume i am just viewing things to black and white.
> >
> > One particular detail in the "Top Spending Increases, continued"
> > section
> > raised some question marks for me though. There is a 2.6 million
> > dollar
> > increase in the "Other tech staffing and stakeholder database"
> > category. I
> > can understand the 10 new tech position and the annualization of
> > existing
> > tech salaries paid by this increase, but what role will the
> > stakeholder
> > database have? The description, "development of a database to track
> > relationships with all stakeholders including readers, editors,
> > donors,
> > other volunteers, etc." is rather vague and includes no real
> > indication as
> > to its purpose. What exactly will it track, and what will the
> > information be
> > used for? Since there are so many editors on-wiki i doubt that this
> > will be
> > used as a full-fledged CRM (customer relationship management) system
> > used to
> > track literally everything. All i can imagine is that it could track
> > top
> > level community issues such as flagged revisions or OTRS complains.
> >
> > Anyone who has some more information on this system? I'm quite
> > interested to
> > be honest.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > ~Excirial
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Oliver Keyes
> > <scire.facias at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Now if we only had some kind of mobile device which could be given
> >> to such
> >> institutions containing a copy! :P.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
> >> cimonavaro at gmail.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Samuel Klein wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Every national and regional library should have a local copy of
> >>> Wikimedia.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> With a full history dump?
> >>>
> >>> ;-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yours,
> >>>
> >>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
> >>>
> >>>
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