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Matt Brown wrote:
On 3/22/06, Rudy Koot r.koot@students.uu.nl wrote:
The "create account" currently currently does not display any (lack of) rights people are entitled to when they create an account. Shouldn't this screen at least need to display that accounts will not be deleted and may be even have a box that needs to checked, stating that people accept Wikipedia's privacy policy?
Wikipedia's privacy policy applies to the Wikimedia Foundation itself and its employees and agents. It does not apply to Wikipedia users and editors.
I don't think we need such a thing.
In the UK (EU?), it would be required upon us (the Foundation) to require users (even anons) to explicitly accept the privacy implications of their actions, and this is almost (?) always carried out with a non-automatically set selection box on registration. Not sure if there's any case law either way, but if there is and it is the only possible way, then running a MediaWiki installation with anon editing, or user editing without such a selection box or "I agree" button may well fall foul of Data Protection legislation.
As to whether we need such a thing... eh. I wouldn't be a terrible idea, but certainly it's not necessary (we have no need of such enforceable contracts with users; asking them to agree to our "AUPs" would create a tool with which we could sue so as to transfer liability, but I fail to see a possible benefit for such a thing, much less a likely situation in which we would pursue it).
Yours sincerely, - -- James D. Forrester Wikimedia : [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] E-Mail : james@jdforrester.org IM (MSN) : jamesdforrester@hotmail.com