| dbarratt added a comment. |
In T173145#3522573, @Izno wrote:Found the task: T168792: Use Cognate to link user pages.
In T173145#3522562, @dbarratt wrote:Honestly, I don't know why User pages can be edited by anyone, that doesn't seem like a good idea.
Wiki ethos. It's definitely a good idea, not least to help people who don't understand what they're doing.
I mean I understand the reasoning, but I can also understand that being a problem too.
In T173145#3522580, @Hsarrazin wrote:You must understand that, to French people, the mere possibility to publicly cross-search personal data for people that are not "public" (i.e. famous... in a way or another) is very, very sensitive....
Sensitive to the point that the law obliges to anonymize jurisprudence databases...
which is why I'm so reluctant to the mere idea of a public database that can be publicly querieds with users data. For now, users global data are accessible, but not publicly searchable. It is not at all the same...
I understand the concern. Although, our publicly accessible data is absoltuley publically searchable already, as an example:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Contact+me&title=Special:Search&profile="">
or on a third party:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:meta.wikimedia.org+%22Contact+Me%22+%22User:%22&ei=yJ6QWfXDJqnm0gLBg4OQBA&start=0&sa=N&biw=1164&bih=581
While it is much more difficult to parse, the data is available (albiet only the data that someone freely posts, which would be the same if it was in wikidata).
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