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The Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information. By using Wikimedia Sites, you consent to this Policy.

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-''Note: this is a draft document intended to document the current consensus on the site's implicit privacy policy. Interested parties are encouraged to edit this page directly or comment in the talk page to help shape an explicit policy. If you make an edit here which is not the current practice, please clearly indicate that it is a change and post about it in talk. It is not a legal contract, and should not yet be taken as authoritative.''
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-== Summary ==
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-If you only read the Wikipedia, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
-If you contribute to the Wikipedia, remember that Wikipedia is not a private chat room, not even on "talk" pages, which suggest by their name that they are transitory. This is a public place and you are '''publishing''' every word you post. In a sense, you don't have any privacy here. You're effectively working in an office where your employer is recording every conversation you have, anywhere in the office. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, "your" user page and "your" talk page. Some limited exceptions are described below.
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-== Publishing and public data ==
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-Simply visiting the web site does not expose your identity publicly (but see [[#Private logging|private logging]] below).
-When you edit any page in the wiki, '''you are publishing a document'''. This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit as its author.
-If you are logged in, you will be identified by your user name. This may be your real name if you so choose, or you may choose to publish under a pseudonym, whatever user name you selected when you created your account.
-If you have not logged in, the only identification of the author that we have is your network [[Wikipedia:IP address|IP address]]. This is a series of four numbers which identifies the internet address from which you are contacting the wiki. Depending on your connection, this number may be traceable only to a large internet service provider, or specifically to your school, place of business, or home. It may be possible that the origin of this IP address could be used in conjunction with any interests you express implicitely or explicitely by editing articles to identify you even by private individuals.
-It may be either difficult or easy for a motivated individual to connect your network IP address with your real-life identity. Therefore if you are very concerned about privacy, you may wish to log in and publish under a pseudonym. When using a pseudonym, your IP address will not be available to the public, but it will be stored on the wiki servers for a relatively short amount of time. Thus it will be available to developers and may be released under certain circumstances (see below).
-If you use a company mail server from home or telecommute and use a DSL or cable internet connection, it's likely to be very easy for your employer to identify your IP address and find all of your IP based Wikipedia contributions. Using a user name is a better way of preserving your privacy in this situation.
-Deleting things from the Wikipedia does not really delete them. In normal articles, anyone can look at a previous version and see what was there. If an article is "deleted", any sysop/administrator, meaning almost anyone trusted not to abuse the deletion capability, can see what was deleted. Only a developer can permanently delete information from the Wikipedia and this is very unlikely to be done to protect privacy, except in response to legal action'', or, possibly, in cases of harassment, which may be by a sysop toward another sysop?''.
-== Private logging ==
-Every time you visit a web page, you send a lot of information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using. It is not the intention of the Wikipedia to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.
-These logs are used to produce the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/stats/ site statistics pages]; the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks.
-Here's a sample of what's logged for one page view:
-.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000]
- "GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084
- "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump"
- "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.5"
-Log data may be examined by developers in the course of solving technical problems, in tracking down badly-behaved web spiders that overwhelm the site, or very rarely to correlate usernames and network addresses of edits in investigating abuse of the wiki.
-=== Policy on release of data derived from page logs ===
-It is the policy of Wikimedia that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs will not be released by the developers who have access to it, except as follows:
-# In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement
-# With permission of the affected user
-# To Jimbo Wales, his legal counsel, or his designee, when necessary for investigation of abuse complaints.
-# Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
-# To all curious/interested parties, sometimes except the user concerned, when it is believed that an IP address may be associated with a banned or otherwise abusive contributor, as part of the process of trying to determine whether this is in fact the case. ''because this has been done in the past - not sure if it will be in the future...''
-Wikimedia policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.
-=== Policy regarding log retention ===
-It is the policy of Wikimedia that server log information, including any backup copies, is destroyed within one year of its creation. ''Will this be retained longer for abuse/security issues or at the request of law enforcement?''
-== E-mail ==
-You may optionally provide your e-mail address to associate with your account. Other logged-in users may send e-mail to you through the wiki (unless you disable this in your preferences), but your address will not be revealed to them unless you respond. ''[Or perhaps if the mail bounces, need to check this.]'' If you do not wish to provide an address you do not have to, but you will then not be able to reset your password if you lose it.
-If you subscribe to one of the project [http://mail.wikipedia.org/ mailing lists], your address will be exposed to any other subscriber. The list archives are public, and your address may find itself quoted in messages.
-== Cookies ==
-The wiki will set a temporary session cookie (PHPSESSID) whenever you visit the site. If you do not intend to ever log in, you may deny this cookie, but you cannot log in without it. It will be deleted when you close your browser session.
-More cookies may be set when you log in, to avoid typing in your user name (or optionally password) on your next visit. These last up to 30 days. You may clear these cookies after use if you are using a public machine and don't wish to expose your username to future users of the machine. (If so, clear the browser cache as well.)
-== Right to Vanish ==
-If you have used your real name, or a longstanding pen name, on Wikipedia then in principle everything you write can be traced to that name, and thus to you, as discussed above. However, if you decide to leave Wikipedia, there are a few steps that you can take to weaken that connection. They are:
-# Change your username to some other name, one which is not directly associated with you (contact a developer).
-# Change references to your former username to be references to your replacement username (you can do this yourself).
-# Delete your user and user talk subpages (contact an administrator).
-# Replace your user page with a brief note indicating that you have left Wikipedia, and asking that people not refer to you by your name.
-You should note that while these measures afford a degree of [[MeatBall:PracticalObscurity|practical obscurity]], they will not stand up to assault from a persistent investigator, and Wikipedia has no control over its sublicensees, or over archiving services such as the Internet Archive or google. Further, these actions require a degree of co-operation from Wikipedia users, so Wikipedia cannot make guarantees on this matter. However, a few Wikipedians have taken advantage of these kinds of measures in the past, and appear content with the results.
-See [[MeatBall:RightToVanish|right to vanish]] (meatballwiki)
-==Personal information deletion==
-The Wikipedia will delete personal information about contributors (most likely on on user and user talk pages) at their request, provided it is not needed for administrative reasons (which is generally limited to dealing with site misuse issues). Personal information about those who merit an encyclopedia article, when in the encyclopedia article, is not included in this. Personal information typically includes, but is not limited to, name, address, telephone number, instant messenger contact details, photograph, appearance, food tastes, political views and similar details of an individual person.