I am assuming that people will be warned and asked for permission in advance to combine these databases? I for one would definitely have strong objections against merging donation and edit data. Donations are real life, edits are wikipedia-universe. Although I do realize that it is much more convenient for staff to have this data combined, I find this objectionable from the privacy point of view. (putting this in a new thread to seperate discussions a bit) I am not sure of legal requirements in this field in the US - but I hope Wikipedia will always adhere to also for example European principles in this regard whether it is maybe or maybe not legally obliged to.
Best, Lodewijk 2010/7/16 Philippe Beaudette <[email protected]> > Hiya - > > I asked Danese, who is currently buried under about 20 pounds of stuff > after coming back from Wikimania, to further describe the stakeholder > database. Her response is: > > Sue has a vision for a single master database that tracks our > interactions with movement participants. It is intended to help us > better respond to requests from individuals by joining all the info we > have from prior interactions with that person. This will be > particularly important as we grow the staff, because current > onboarding time requires long "buddy system" pairings with existing > staff to teach how to best interact. So for instance, if you have had > a Wikipedia account since 2005, have made enough edits to become, say, > an Admin, have uploaded 100 images to Commons, have been a donor every > year and have responded helpfully to many OTRS requests, there should > be a quick way for a new staffer to learn those facts. All of this > information is available to the staff now, just not in an aggregated > place. > > Danese > > > > On Jul 15, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Excirial wrote: > > > I have gone trough the report, and immediately noted the extremely > > strong > > growth of the foundation in terms of personal (Nearly doubling the > > amount > > two years in a row). Generally i am not a fan of such fast growth as > > it > > often leads to bloating; but seeing the the rest of the plan looks > > fine i > > presume i am just viewing things to black and white. > > > > One particular detail in the "Top Spending Increases, continued" > > section > > raised some question marks for me though. There is a 2.6 million > > dollar > > increase in the "Other tech staffing and stakeholder database" > > category. I > > can understand the 10 new tech position and the annualization of > > existing > > tech salaries paid by this increase, but what role will the > > stakeholder > > database have? The description, "development of a database to track > > relationships with all stakeholders including readers, editors, > > donors, > > other volunteers, etc." is rather vague and includes no real > > indication as > > to its purpose. What exactly will it track, and what will the > > information be > > used for? Since there are so many editors on-wiki i doubt that this > > will be > > used as a full-fledged CRM (customer relationship management) system > > used to > > track literally everything. All i can imagine is that it could track > > top > > level community issues such as flagged revisions or OTRS complains. > > > > Anyone who has some more information on this system? I'm quite > > interested to > > be honest. > > > > Kind regards, > > ~Excirial > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Oliver Keyes > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Now if we only had some kind of mobile device which could be given > >> to such > >> institutions containing a copy! :P. > >> > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < > >> [email protected] > >>> wrote: > >> > >>> Samuel Klein wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Every national and regional library should have a local copy of > >>> Wikimedia. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> With a full history dump? > >>> > >>> ;-) > >>> > >>> > >>> Yours, > >>> > >>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> foundation-l mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ > >> foundation-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
