I'd say that you should display <
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Labs_Terms_of_use#If_my_tools_collect_Private_Information...>
*before* you collect that private information. It's true that email
addresses are not listed in that page as private information, but EU-wide
email addresses are private information so I'd display the warning
nonetheless. Thanks.

2018-02-10 12:26 GMT+01:00 Martin Urbanec <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> upon request at Czech Wikipedia's helpdesk I created a tool that sends
> notifications about new weekly articles by e-mail together with its first
> paragraph and link to it. To accomplish such a thing I need user's email,
> so I firstly decided to store it in a database. To prevent this tool from
> spamming I of course require its confirmation by accessing an URL with a
> random string (MD5 hash of user's email *and* random number from 1 to
> 100; I mean, those two things are in one hash). You can have a look at this
> tool at tools.wmflabs.org/wiki2email/.
>
> My question is: Is this okay? Should I add some kind of formal information
> to the tool? If so, is there some help page? Should I stop with collecting
> mails at all and use some WMF-maintained service for mass-emailing (mailman
> at lists.wikimedia.org maybe?) and make the tool to just send an email to
> the list itself?
>
> This question came to my mind before creating, so I do appologize for
> asking after programming.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Urbanec
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