Message: 10
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:26:04 +0100
From: Chris Jenkinson <chris(a)starglade.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Privacy policy and editing anonymously notice.
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>rg>, Wikipedia
<wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org>rg>, Wikimedia Foundation
<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Message-ID: <4360108C.5070803(a)starglade.org>
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Hi all,
As the Board have been rather slow with publicising the new privacy
policy,
What new privacy policy? Is there a new one?
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.
I don't like this message. It is an extremely stern and harshly worded
message that might scare away potential contributors. Isn't a link to the
policy enough? Most websites don't write out their entire Terms of Service
(TOS) directly on the page; there's a link to the ToS at the bottom instead.
(Sidenote: if you've ever taken the time to read the ToS for some major
websites, they're quite scary...)
Someone has also added a link to the privacy policy on
the bottom of
every page.
I like that - nice and simple link to the policy, similar to the
aforementioned ToS links.
<snip>
Chris
I just don't think that the notice there is appropriate. When I clicked edit
today, I went "What the...?!" A link at the bottom is enough, in my opinion.
What do all of you think?
Regards,
Flcelloguy
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
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