The discussion here has been great. I've been keeping out of it since I have an active research project and I don't want to seed my own ideas, but to circle back to the original post... if anyone here would like to contribute their experiences with privacy on Wikipedia to our project, please consider doing an interview. This is not related to the lawsuit, btw, we started the project before that happened.
The consent form is here: http://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_elzNLEUeTjIphrv Thanks, Andrea On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:00 AM, WereSpielChequers < [email protected]> wrote: > There is an important difference here. The WMF does not publicly log the IP > addresses of visitors to the site. > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#your-use-of-wm-sites> It > does however publish the IP addresses of editors who are not logged in. > > I could understand the elitist claim if the WMF were more privacy conscious > of editors than readers. But it isn't, if anything the divide is a three > way one, with unregistered editors as the ones who by default have least > privacy > > Regards > > Jonathan > > On 5 April 2015 at 21:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I propose we run a study. We will survey random editors > > > > I always find it curious that we had dozens or hundreds of threads on > > having IPs in history: this worry is very elitist, at most few millions > > people ever edited. > > > > What about the hundreds millions users who never edited? What are *their* > > IPs being logged for? It would be rather trivial to do as the IA does: > > > http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/reader-privacy-at-the-internet-archive/ > > > > I'll start worrying about the millions when we have solved privacy issues > > for the billions. > > > > Nemo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- :: Andrea Forte :: Assistant Professor :: College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University :: http://www.andreaforte.net _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
