[Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Thomas Dalton, 04/02/2012 15:05:
> On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofilo<teofilowiki at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
>>
>> I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal
>> information through edit links. I won't edit articles with
>> articleFeedbackv5_ct_token= ids in their URLs, as has become the case
>> with the English Wikipedia article Costa Concordia disaster.
>
> Could you explain what personal data you believe is being collected?
>> From what I can tell, all that is being collected is information on
> whether you edit the article after viewing it or not. That isn't
> personal.

Moreover, shouldn't one use HTTPS websites to avoid ISP collecting some 
information about visited websites? (Too technical for me to understand 
at what extent.) I think it would help in this case, and it's way easier 
than complaining like that.

Nemo