2010/8/3 Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> > 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.
And it says that the number of edits is public. > It is not against the policy to provide less information than that, only to > provide more information. > But it is against the policy to write a new policy which converts the number of edits in a private data, until the user gives permission to be used and published in statistics. > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
