Personally, I don't see any intrinsic problem with different wiki communities having different policies about what kinds of auxiliary content they will accept (as long as it doesn't interfere with the basic mission of the project).
I will say though that trying to control the ways that already public data might be aggregated is pretty unexpected from my American viewpoint. It is also seems pretty clear that aggregation of edit statistics is perfectly acceptable within the larger WMF Privacy Policy. Hence, I think the German Wikipedia community would find it nearly impossible to enforce their position on privacy with respect to the actions of most external third parties. It even seems likely to me that if the same information appeared on EN or Meta, that they would have trouble finding a consensus for deletion within those communities. So, if the Germans wish to have a more restrictive privacy policy governing their own content, then that seems fine, but I suspect they would have a difficult uphill battle to extend that decision beyond their own immediate sphere of influence. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
