My opinion - Once the information is published (by the WMF) you can do anything you want with it, within the scope of what is legal. dewiki's privacy policy isn't endorsed by the WMF, who run the site, and so I wouldn't consider it binding in any way. They may choose to delete things that violate a particular policy if you post it on dewiki, but that is true of many policies. What matters is that the toolserver has an absolutely ridiculous rule requiring that generating statistics about publicly available information be opt in. I can't see how neglecting to do this could possibly violate any laws, as some claim it would - but IANAL. However Wikimedia Deutschland (wikimedia de, not dewiki) owns the toolserver, and they can have whatever silly rules they want. The only issue is the replicated database is accessible only from the toolserver. So there are two options - 1) donate a comparable server to the WMF and create another toolserver where you control the rules or 2) complain to Wikimedia Deutschland, who run the toolserver. Pavel Richter is the "managing director" of Wikimedia Deutschland ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland#Mitarbeiter) - perhaps contact him.
Prodego On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Przykuta <przyk...@o2.pl> wrote: > > >>> No ethics here then. > > > > >> Tell me, have you ever contributed *anything* to this list, or to a > > >> Wikimedia project, that wasn't trolling? > > > > > How is it trolling to simply question a few assumptions? And to answer > > > your question yes. > > > > > > [citation needed] > > > > > > - d. > > please :) > > _______________________________________________ > 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
