A further concern about these fundraising banners on en.m.wikipedia.org relates
to its presentation of the non-signed-in reader's options as either "Give xx"
or "Maybe later" or two large buttons (see the floating banner overlapping the
bottom of the article screenshot I copied onto the en.wiki discussion
yesterday), with "Maybe later" then opening a box for your email address and a
"Submit" button. (Yes, the experienced user can use other ways to terminate,
but this dialog is the designed user journey. Presenting concerns about this as
3 thematic questions for the WMF: (1) Has there been Legal sign-off that
eliciting personal email addresses via such an upfront Money-or-Address dialog
is fully compliant (e.g. where GDPR applies) and amounts to informed consent?
Has the associated data collection, use and destruction been fully articulated
and approved? (2) Some en.m.wikipedia.org users live under regimes where
leaving any trail - money or email address - could be personally dangerou
s: have these Safety issues been approved? (3) More broadly, is pushing a
casual reader down what presents as a money-or-address path before they see the
information that they originally sought consistent with the overall
open-access-to-information ethos of the project?
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