Edits didn't affect the content of the policy actually. Also a cookie policy is essentially a legal stuff, I'd be surprised to *don't *see the legal team editing it.
As a "sockpuppet investigator" I never rely upon cookies, I prefer fingerprints and social security numbers. Vito 2016-05-01 23:40 GMT+02:00 Trillium Corsage <trillium2...@yandex.com>: > I noticed Michelle Paulson editing the "Cookie Statement" page, and it > seemed kind of strange to me because I thought it more a technical and IT > thing to edit. But Michelle is WMF Legal, right? > > Is WMF doing something new (or newish, maybe I'm a little late in picking > up on this) with cookies? Can someone describe to me what that is, in > layman's terms? > > Is it about third-party marketing and working up personal profiles of > editors and readers? What sort of new information is the WMF gathering, if > it is, on editors and readers? > > Are there privacy concerns we should be worried about? > > Will the information gathered by the cookies be made available to the > anonymous administrative "volunteers" the WMF grants access to the > non-public information of editors? The so-called "sockpuppet investigators" > and so forth? > > Here: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Cookie_statement&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=105722&oldid=104960 > . > > Trillium Corsage > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
