https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161
Gregor Hagedorn <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #48 from Gregor Hagedorn <[email protected]> 2011-04-05 06:49:23 UTC --- The wikimedia implementation/use of the mediawiki software clearly VIOLATES the wikimedia foundation privacy policy, which says: ---- Reading projects: No more information on users and other visitors reading pages is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites. Aside from the above raw log data collected for general purposes, page visits do not expose a visitor's identity publicly. Sampled raw log data may include the IP address of any user, but it is not reproduced publicly. ---- Contrary to the policy, READING a new wiki is PUBLICLY exposed (on those wikis where a bot reads new user accounts and creates welcome pages) when a user has previously signed in to another wikimedia wiki. I do not consider the option to disable single-sign as a practical solution. A single sign-on to commons, en.wikipedia, de.wikipedia, perhaps mediawiki.org may be desired, but recording chance read-only-visits at any number of other wikis would still be surprising. Solutions: a) fix the software so that user creation occurs only after an edit b) change the privacy policy to read: Reading projects: No more information on users and other visitors reading pages is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites. However, when using single-sign on, any visit to a wikimedia site you had not previously visited may be recorded publicly. Aside from the above raw log data collected for general purposes, page visits do not expose a visitor's identity publicly. Sampled raw log data may include the IP address of any user, but it is not reproduced publicly. c) prohibit bots that create welcome pages after user creation without corresponding edits. Gregor -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
