Hi, There might be some legal issues with this. Has anyone looked into whether GDPR permits this information to be shared if a user's information is protected by GDPR?
More generally, I'm not comfortable with this idea for privacy reasons. Unless a user has consented to this type of information being shared with an external entity, I think that it shouldn't be shared. However, education entities can go to their participants and request consent for this type of information sharing. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 4:33 PM LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > (Apologies if you already received this; I tried to send it earlier this > week but I think it didn't go through.) > > Fellow education program leaders, > > The Wikipedia & Education User Group has a request for you: Please share > the usernames of your participants with us! > > Here’s why: We would like to quantify the impact the global education > program is having on the Wikimedia projects’ new active editor numbers. We > think the percentage of new active editors to all language Wikimedia > projects coming from all the educational efforts happening around the world > is likely impressive, but we have no way of knowing without having access > to usernames! > > That’s where you come in. Whether your program is new with only a handful > of editors or a long-established program with hundreds of participants, we > want you to be counted. We are measuring our collective program’s impact, > and getting data from as many programs as possible, no matter their size, > is important! > > Here’s what we need: > * You are best positioned to determine your own definition of which editors > come through your education program. Education programs look different > around the world; we trust if you say this person started editing through > your education program that they are part of our global education community. > * The timeframe we are looking for is January 1, 2019, through June 30, > 2020 (or today, if you’re sending us names before then). Please share all > usernames of new editors who joined through your education program between > the start of 2019 through the first half of 2020. > * We only need usernames; we do not need the leading User: or which > Wikimedia project(s) they edited. > * Please send these by June 30, 2020. > > To share your usernames: > * If you are using the Program & Events Dashboard ( > https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/), simply send an email to > [email protected] (offlist) with a link to your campaign. If not every > program within that campaign is an education program, include in the body > of the email which program(s) should be considered part of your education > program. > * If you do not use the Program & Events Dashboard, please collect > usernames into a spreadsheet and upload that spreadsheet here: > https://www.dropbox.com/request/PMJHRjgXuxJsM7yEmdGf (note: you do not need > to have a Dropbox account to submit a file here) > > If you have any questions, please email LiAnna ([email protected]). > > On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group, > LiAnna > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
