Ah. Then no there isn’t a problem. Just keep wherever it’s saved secure, allow the user to delete their info at any time and disclose that this information is stored to the users. https://tools.wmflabs.org/iabot does this in the user preferences.
Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team English Wikipedia Administrator Global User Renamer > On Feb 10, 2018, at 11:00, Martin Urbanec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Repeating myself: A) having an email address in your account isn't required > for editing B) what if I don't have an account? > > M. > > so 10. 2. 2018 v 16:57 odesílatel Maximilian Doerr > <[email protected]> napsal: >> Why not just make use of the Special:EmailUser function? >> >> Cyberpower678 >> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team >> English Wikipedia Administrator >> Global User Renamer >> >>> On Feb 10, 2018, at 06:26, Martin Urbanec <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>> -- >>> Můj kalendář najdete na https://martin.urbanec.cz/calendar.html >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> >>> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >>> [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list >> [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > -- > Můj kalendář najdete na https://martin.urbanec.cz/calendar.html > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia Cloud Services mailing list > [email protected] (formerly [email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
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