Chad wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
But UK-based MediaWiki sites should be OK,
shouldn't they? Does
MediaWiki use cookies for anything other than login functionality? Not
sure if the "You must have cookies enabled to log in to SITENAME" bit
will need rewording for tediously strict compliance.
MediaWiki core only uses cookies for logging in, and nothing else.
Lots of extensions probably use cookies for stuff, so I can't speak
for them.
-Chad
Well, you could argue that the UserName cookie is not strictly necessary
(specially when logged out), although you would too have a hard time
explaining a judge why the LoggedOut one is needed.
However, I think that a disclaimer at Special:UserLogin explaining that
by logging in you store a few cookies should be enough.
I welcome that privacy is being taken more seriously, though.