Hi all; Some days ago I was contacted in my user talk in Spanish Wikipedia about a request for deletion in German Wikipedia.[1] An user opened a request for deletion[2] for an user edits ranking[3] which my bot updates regularly in German Wikipedia (also in many more projects[4][5]). Finally, the German version of this ranking it was deleted some days ago.
I don't speak German, but, using a translator, I can understand that the reason for the deletion was that German Wikipedia has got a "local privacy policy" whichs avoid generating statistics of users which are not listed in an opt-in page.[6] The number of edits is a public number. For example, you can know my number of edits in German Wikipedia, looking at[7][8], and the "official" top users in[9]. So, what is the problem? data privacy or that this list was saved in German Wikipedia? Also, reading the Privacy Policy[10] of the Wikimedia Foundation, you can see: User contributions are also aggregated and publicly available. User contributions are aggregated according to their registration and login status. Data on user contributions, such as the times at which users edited and the number of edits they have made, are publicly available via user contributions lists, and in aggregated forms published by other users. The privacy policy is clear. Your number of edits is public. And it can be published in aggregated forms by other uses. And if you edit Wikipedia, you accept the Privacy Policy. Also, on the top of the Privacy Policy page you can read: The content of this page is an official policy approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. This policy may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored on local Wikimedia projects. But now, German Wikipedia has an "official local privacy policy" which is opposed to that. Finally, I would like to know what is the position of the Wikimedia Foundation on this. I think that it is an important question, for users, for researchers and for curious people. Thanks, emijrp [1] http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Usuario_Discusi%C3%B3n:Emijrp&diff=39192815&oldid=39180637 [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/24._Juli_2010#Benutzer:Emijrp.2FList_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits_.28gel.C3.B6scht.29 [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Emijrp/List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/List_of_Wikimedians_by_number_of_edits [5] Look at the interwikis: http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Emijrp/List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits [6] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beitragszahlen/Opt-In [7] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Emijrp&usprop=editcount [8] http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=Emijrp [9] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm#wikipedians [10] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
