On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 What I believe this is referring to, is that the Customer Relation Manager (CRM) [CiviCRM iirc] to be setup to allow for some details about the people to be stored such as their usernames/interests/etc compared to it just being a word of mouth system where staff members need to track down which staff know who.
So for example a staff member can look up a person and go "oh Jimmy Bloggs is interested in political photograph, X might interest him" compared to say "Jimmy Bloggs was entered by Sally Doors, I need to go talk to her," who redirects to someone else that knows more about the subject. -Peachey _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
