On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Stephen LaPorte wrote: > Hi all, > > We wanted to let you know about a new site that we launched to support your > work on public policy and communicate how public policy affects the > Wikimedia projects to advocacy groups (https://policy.wikimedia.org). The > site includes position statements on access, copyright, censorship, > intermediary liability, and privacy. We hope that it will make it easier > for advocacy groups to collaborate with the Wikimedia community on issues > within these areas.
Thanks Stephen for the update! At least we don't have another wiki :) One little nit: at the bottom of the pages we have: > Keep up-to-date with Wikimedia’s policy initiatives > [ email-address-field ] [ JOIN button ] > The list admins will not give your email address to others. Also there is this in the privacy policy: > Who has access > The Wikimedia Foundation staff may need access to your data to run and > improve the site. A few trusted volunteers can also access your email > address as administrators if you sign up for the mailing list. I think the subscribe button lets people subscribe to this mailing list we are using right now. I think it is slightly inaccurate to say "The list admins will not give your email address to others" as e-mail addresses are revealed to participants during the discussion, and are available via the mailing list administrative interface. So if somebody expects they end-up on a some kind of one-way annoucement mailing lists, this is not what they get. Our "Wikimedia Sites" privacy policy has a better wording here: > Other users. We provide several tools that allow users to communicate > with each other. The communications may be covered by this Policy > while they pass through our systems, but the users who receive these > communications, and what they do with the communications once they > receive them, are not covered by this Policy. Examples include: > posting to Foundation-hosted email lists; > (...) My suggestion would be to warn users in advance that they subscribe to a public forum that is archived and address information is also available to pretty much everyone. I don't think we should be changing archiving/configuration settings of this list right now, just let the new subscribers know, what they are doing. Side note: maybe the piece about user-to-user communication should be more exposed on the main privacy policy page - I was searching for this wording because I knew it's there, I didn't realize I needed to unfold the "More on what this Privacy Policy doesn’t cover" template ]] ~Marcin _______________________________________________ Publicpolicy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy
