+ Michelle Paulson On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> This issue is also being discussed on the Research mailing list. > > I have three questions: > > 1. Was this outreach method approved by RCom? > No, and RCom, as far as I know has not been active in the past year or more (last meeting was on Dec. 22, 2011). This is a research from the Research team in the WMF. > 2. Email addresses are nonpublic information on-wiki unless they are > proactively and publicly disclosed by users. Does the bulk collection of > nonpublic email addresses in this manner and the bulk provision of those > addresses to researchers for their use in this campaign violate the > Wikimedia privacy policy? The policy states regarding email, "We use your > email address to let you know about things that are happening with the > Foundation, the Wikimedia Sites, or the Wikimedia movement, such as telling > you important information about your account, letting you know if something > is changing about the Wikimedia Sites or policies, and alerting you when > there has been a change to an article that you have decided to follow." The > bulk scraping of email addresses from account registrations for research > and outreach purposes doesn't appear to be contemplated or authorized under > the privacy policy. > Michelle can help with this one as this is related to Legal. Note that it's weekend here and this may have to wait until Monday. > 3. Wouldn't talk pages be a more appropriate outreach method than bulk > email? > The reason we chose email over talk pages (or Echo notifications) is explained here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Increasing_article_coverage#.C2.AB_recommander_par_courriel_des_articles_.C3.A0_cr.C3.A9er.E2.80.A6_.C2.BB>. Hope this helps. Best, Leila > Thanks, > > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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