[Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Teofilo
Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal information through edit links. I won't edit articles with articleFeedbackv5_ct_token= ids in their URLs, as has become the case with the English Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal information through edit links. I won't edit articles with articleFeedbackv5_ct_token= ids in

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thomas Dalton, 04/02/2012 15:05: On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofiloteofilow...@gmail.com wrote: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal information through edit links. I won't edit articles with

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links See http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Béria Lima
Correct if I'm wrong (And i'm probably wrong) but that would work for every single site if approved, so why strike only Wikipedia? I would stop use internet altogether. :P _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread dgerard
FWIW, I know our devs are not at all keen to keep personal data even sitting around - even checkuser data is cleared after six months, I think. What is the current policy? - d. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Béria Lima
3 months David. CheckUser data clear in 3 months. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
FWIW, I know our devs are not at all keen to keep personal data even sitting around - even checkuser data is cleared after six months, I think. What is the current policy? - d. About right. Keeping personal data creates disclosure problems with children under 13. Fred

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
A US law would affect only US providers; however the National Security Agency is already authorized to monitor all other internet traffic, and other communications traffic, in the world. They have complex search algorithms that single out individual messages based on their security priorities.

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Andrew Gray
On 4 February 2012 13:57, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: Also it is becoming uncomfortable to edit section 0 of an article. On a normal wiki article, to edit section 0, one copy-pastes the edit link of section 1 and changes 1 into 0. This is no longer possible in a reliable enough way,