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== Summary ==
If you only read the Wikimedia project websitesOrthodoxWiki website, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.
If you contribute to the Wikimedia OrthodoxWiki projects, you are '''publishing''' every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages and talk pages. Some limited exceptions are described below. ''This policy is based on [[meta:Privacy_policy]] and [[meta:Right_to_vanish]].''
==Publishing on the wiki and public data ==
=== Identification of an author ===
When you publish a page in the wikion OrthodoxWiki, you may must be logged in or not.
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.
=== 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 You may deny this cookie, but you cannot log in without it. It In a typical browser configuration, 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.)
=== Passwords ===
Many aspects of the Wikimedia projects OrthodoxWiki's community interactions depend on the reputation and respect that is built up through a history of valued contributions. User passwords are the only guarantee of the integrity of a user's edit history. All users are encouraged to select [http://wolfram.org/writing/howto/password.html strong passwords ] and to never share them. No one shall knowingly expose the password of another user to public release either directly or indirectly.
== 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 Wikimedia OrthodoxWiki projects to use this information to keep track of legitimate users.
These logs are used to produce the [http://meta.wikimediaOrthodoxWiki.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:
64.164.82.142 - - [21/Oct/2003:02:03:19 +0000]
"GET /wiki/draft_privacy_policy HTTP/1.1" 200 18084
"http://en.wikipediaorthodoxwiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_projects:Village_pumpMain_Page"
"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.
We also use log data to post [[OrthodoxWiki:Statistics|statistics]] about the website. This includes information about how users find their way to OrthodoxWiki as well as information abotu which words were typed in to a search engine to get to OrthodoxWiki. None of this yields personally identifiable information. We do not publically post the IP addresses of visitors.
=== Policy on release of data derived from page logs ===
It is the policy of Wikimedia OrthodoxWiki that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs will not be released by the developers adminstrators 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
# Where the information pertains to page views generated by a spider or bot and its dissemination is necessary to illustrate or resolve technical issues.
# Where the user has been vandalising articles or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, data may be released to assist in the targetting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers
# Where it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of the Wikimedia FoundationOrthodoxWiki adminsitrators, its OrthodoxWiki users or the public.<!-- this line borrowed from Google--> Wikimedia policy does not permit public distribution of such information under any circumstances, except as described above.
== Sharing information with third parties ==
Except where otherwise specified, all text added to Wikimedia OrthodoxWiki projects is available for reuse under the terms of the GFDL, except for Wikinews, where the text is available under as well as a Creative Commons Licenselicense.
==Security of information==
== E-mail, mailing lists and IRC==
=== E-mail ===
You may provide your e-mail address in your Preferences. This allows other logged-in users may send email to you through the wiki (unless you disable this in your preferences). Your address will not be revealed to them unless you respond, or possibly if the email bounces. The email address may be used by the Wikimedia Foundation OrthodoxWiki to communicate with users on a wider scale. We may use your email to send special announcements pertaining directly to OrthodoxWiki. If this does happen, such announcements will be very rare.
If you do not provide an email address, you will not be able to reset your password if you forget it. However, you may contact one of Wikimedia OrthodoxWiki developer to enter a new mail address in your preferences.
You can remove your email address from your preferences at any time to prevent it being used.
=== Information email addresses ===
=== IRC ===
[[mw:IRC channels|IRC channels]] are not officially part of Wikimedia OrthodoxWiki proper. By participating to an IRC channel, your IP address will be exposed to other participants. Different channels have different policies on whether logs may be published. We cannot accept responsibilty for any information shared in an IRC channel or any of the content of that channel.
== User data ==
=== Removal of user accounts ===
Once created, user accounts can not be removed. It may be possible for a developer an administrator to change the username on an account, but you will need to request this yourself. The Wikimedia Foundation OrthodoxWiki's adminstration does not guarantee that a name will be changed on request. See [[meta:Right to vanish]] below for further details.
Whether specific user information is deleted is dependant on the deletion policies of the project that contains the information.
==Deletion of content==
Deleting text from the OrthodoxWiki website 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 an administrator can permanently delete information from the OrthodoxWiki projects and there is no guarantee this will happen except in response to legal action.
== Right to Vanish ==
If you have used your real name, or a longstanding pen name, on OrthodoxWiki then in principle everything you write can be traced to that name, and thus to you, as discussed above. However, there are a few steps that you can take to weaken that connection. They are:
# 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 administratora sysop).# Replace your user page with a brief note indicating that you have left Wikimedia projects, and asking would prefer that people not refer to you by your name. You should note that while these measures afford a degree of practical obscurity, they will not stand up to assault from a persistent investigator, and Wikimedia projects 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 the user of the project, so Wikimedia cannot make guarantees on this matter. However, a few users have taken advantage of these kinds of measures in the past, and appear content with the results.
==Personal information deletion==
The Wikimedia OrthodoxWiki projects will delete personal information about contributors (most likely 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. ''This policy is based on [[meta:Privacy_policy]] and [[meta:Right_to_vanish]].''
==See also==
* [[OrthodoxWiki:Copyrights]]
* [[OrthodoxWiki:Disclaimer]]
[[Category:OrthodoxWiki]]