[Labs-l] Labs privacy policy questions

Marc A. Pelletier marc at uberbox.org
Tue Mar 8 15:40:52 UTC 2016


On 16-03-08 07:13 AM, Maximilian Doerr wrote:
> No tool labs tool or project has any business collecting usernames and
> passwords unless it's a local tool login completely separate login from
> WMF wikis.

That is exactly what this provision is about (credentials for the tool
itself, if any).

Anything using OAuth never involves giving your Wikimedia credentials to
a tool.

In fact, storing Wikimedia credentials is forbidden to tool maintainers
by the TOU in the first place.

-- Marc




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