On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:13 AM, emijrp <emi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
No. The privacy policy tells which information, and under which circumstances *may* be divulged. It is not against the policy to provide less information than that, only to provide more information. At least, that is how I always read the privacy policy. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
