Wikiversity:Privacy policy
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 | This policy in a nutshell: Be careful with what personal information you share and be respectful of the wishes of your fellow members of the community with regards to their personal information. |
This policy addresses privacy concerns specific to Wikiversity. As a Wikimedia Foundation project, everything in Wikimedia:Privacy policy also applies to Wikiversity.
Your privacy
Wikiversity encourages all participants to share general information about their learning goals, experiences, education and interests on their userpage. If you think it might help your learning to tell others a bit about yourself, then please feel free to put this information on your userpage. When sharing additional personal information about yourself (real name, date of birth, contact information, etc.), please make sure it relates to Wikiversity's mission in some reasonable way and fits within Wikiversity policy. You are free to link to other webpages containing personal information about yourself, but remember to think of the potential consequences of doing so - and be especially careful when you are dealing with personal information of other people (see below). If you have any concerns about how other people might use your personal information then please don't share it or link to other websites containing your personal information. Using Wikiversity's standard userbox templates might be a "safer" way to share information without revealing personal information about yourself that you rather remain private.
Everyone's privacy
Everybody has different tolerances for how much personal information they are prepared to make publicly known. Please do not include or link to other people's personal information without their express permission, regardless of whether or not the information is actually correct. This applies whether or not the person whose personal information is being revealed is a wiki editor. Even personal information where the person has given permission may be excluded if it does not relate to Wikiversity's mission in some reasonable way, does not fit within Wikiversity policy, or when not relevant to the educational goal of a learning project as determine by its contributors. This also includes files that incorporate either the image or voice of an individual, or the likeness of an individual.
Personal information
Whilst some people don't mind if you use their real name, many prefer to be addressed by their user name. Revealing personal information can have ramifications that may be upsetting for some people and might be considered uncivil or harassment. Personal information, including names, ages, and email address, used without permission will be removed by Custodians with revision deletion. If you add another person's personal information without permission you will be warned once. If you persist you will be blocked for 24 hours. Blocks lasting longer than 7 days will be discussed at Wikiversity:Community Review.
Living people
Wikiversity is open to research projects, but Wikiversity research policy explicitly calls for high ethical standards. Part of research ethics is protecting the privacy of people who are the subject of your research.
Private correspondence
Please do not post private off-wiki correspondence (this includes email and irc) unless all parties involved approve what you are posting. #wikiversity-en is an extension of Wikiversity, however it has rules that govern its use that are independent of the wiki. See freenode's channel guidelines and Wikimedia's IRC guidelines.
Young contributors
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule of the Federal Trade Commission was created in response to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA was designed to regulate online collection of personal information about children.
If you are a young contributor, please do not share your name, age, location, address, or any other personal information about yourself with anyone. If you are under 18 years of age you will also need permission from a parent or guardian to upload audio, video, or images of yourself. Permission can be sent via emailing users found on the Support staff directory, through IRC private messaging of an custodian, or through contacting Wikiversity:OTRS. Custodians may remove personal information of young contributors revealed without permission of a parent or guardian.