For Priyanka Mandikal's 2016 Accuracy Review project, I looked at the documented policies governing this question and determined that (1) the English Wikipedia admins and arbcom have asked that institutionally organized student editing should but is not required to be disclosed. As you might expect, there are a wide variety of individual reasons. One of the reasons is that student projects have gone bad, causing disruption, extra work, accuracy failures, style flaws, and other problems. While that happens relatively less often after years of experience with education programs, there are more of them now so the problem is still worthy of consideration. My opinion is that students should be able to opt in and out of that status publically, and if they start in a student program then they should start editing with student status, which should not be visible except in the user logs. The flaw with that approach is that a lot of students who go on to edit long term might never opt out of student status, but it might be fun to go through and thank them and highlight the best of their stories for fundraising and such.
Our privacy efforts might be better placed working to protect the HTTPS system of end-to-end encryption, because the legislation outlawing that sort of thing would make everyone's complete internet activity including browsing history available in full to state, federal, and local officials. Best regards, Jim On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:18 AM Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
