Robert Rohde wrote: > Personally, I don't see any intrinsic problem with different wiki > communities having different policies about what kinds of auxiliary > content they will accept (as long as it doesn't interfere with the > basic mission of the project). > > I will say though that trying to control the ways that already public > data might be aggregated is pretty unexpected from my American > viewpoint. It is also seems pretty clear that aggregation of edit > statistics is perfectly acceptable within the larger WMF Privacy > Policy. Hence, I think the German Wikipedia community would find it > nearly impossible to enforce their position on privacy with respect to > the actions of most external third parties. It even seems likely to > me that if the same information appeared on EN or Meta, that they > would have trouble finding a consensus for deletion within those > communities.
Currently the data collection and processing doesn't follow its recommended code of good practice of the UKs DPA and may even be in breach of it: http://www.ico.gov.uk/ebook/ebook.htm One wonders what the response would be if a UK ISP published a list of all its users site visits. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
