[WikiEN-l] Privacy policy and editing anonymously notice.

[Chris Jenkinson]

Hi all,

As the Board have been rather slow with publicising the new privacy 
policy, I have taken the step of adding a notice to the bottom of 
[[MediaWiki:Copyrightstext]] on the English-language Wikipedia (the text 
which is displayed when you click "Edit this page"), which mentions that 
if you are editing anonymously, your IP address will be publically and 
permanently associated with the edits, and if you're editing while 
logged in, your IP address will be stored for around 2 weeks.

Someone has also added a link to the privacy policy on the bottom of 
every page.

I urge admins on all the various projects to update their project with 
this information - make it clear that editing will mean that some 
personally-identifiable information is kept about the contributor.

Chris