I'd rather not speculate about what happens or the intent before someone from the WMF who is responsible for this clarifies the statement. I hope we all can hold ourselves from guessing and seeking logic until that moment.
Lodewijk 2010/7/17 Oliver Keyes <scire.fac...@gmail.com> > So the logic seems to be thus - if I tell employee X something about my > life, interests, experience, C.V. that could possibly be of use or interest > to the Foundation, it's fine to store it on a central database where all > and > sundry within the Foundation can get at it, despite the fact that this was > never my intent. > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:01 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@yahoo.com.au> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > I am assuming that people will be warned and asked for permission in > > advance > > > to combine these databases? I for one would definitely have strong > > > objections against merging donation and edit data. Donations are real > > life, > > > edits are wikipedia-universe. Although I do realize that it is much > more > > > convenient for staff to have this data combined, I find this > > objectionable > > > from the privacy point of view. (putting this in a new thread to > seperate > > > discussions a bit) I am not sure of legal requirements in this field in > > the > > > US - but I hope Wikipedia will always adhere to also for example > European > > > principles in this regard whether it is maybe or maybe not legally > > obliged > > > to. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Lodewijk > > What I believe this is referring to, is that the Customer Relation > > Manager (CRM) [CiviCRM iirc] to be setup to allow for some details > > about the people to be stored such as their usernames/interests/etc > > compared to it just being a word of mouth system where staff members > > need to track down which staff know who. > > > > So for example a staff member can look up a person and go "oh Jimmy > > Bloggs is interested in political photograph, X might interest him" > > compared to say "Jimmy Bloggs was entered by Sally Doors, I need to go > > talk to her," who redirects to someone else that knows more about the > > subject. > > > > -Peachey > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
