[WikiEN-l] Court ruling and privacy policy

2009-12-02 Thread Charles Matthews
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6710237/Wikipedia- ordered-by-judge-to-break-confidentiality-of-contributor.html is a news story about the British High Court ordering the WMF to disclose an IP number of an editor. This is in line with the statement of the Privacy Policy, as I

[WikiEN-l] Question of the week on strategy-wiki

2009-12-02 Thread Philippe Beaudette
There's a new question of the week at Strategy wiki - http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Question_of_the_week This week's question is: The Wall Street Journal published an article last week detailing the research of Felipe Ortega, indicating that the number of editors has declined in recent

Re: [WikiEN-l] Court ruling and privacy policy

2009-12-02 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, how long do we reckon their identities will remain private? 3 days? A week, tops? Steve Not to mention the private information they wish to suppress. The fact that this confidential information, which they do not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Question of the week on strategy-wiki

2009-12-02 Thread Charles Matthews
Philippe Beaudette wrote: Given all of the above, how could the community better reward contributions and nurture new editors? How can the Wikimedia projects become a friendlier and more welcoming place to share knowledge? We'd love to have your input on the talk page of that question!

Re: [WikiEN-l] Court ruling and privacy policy

2009-12-02 Thread geni
2009/12/2 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6710237/Wikipedia- ordered-by-judge-to-break-confidentiality-of-contributor.html Hmm, how long do we reckon