In most instances, Personal Information is deleted, aggregated or de-identified after 90 days. Non-Personal Information may be retained indefinitely as appropriate. Check out the list of examples in our FAQ. Please remember that when you make a contribution to any Wikimedia Site, the page history will show when your contribution was made, your username if you are signed in , or your IP address if you edit while not logged in. The transparency of the projects' contribution and revision histories is critical to their efficacy and trustworthiness.
To learn more about our data retention practices, see our data retention guidelines. If you would like to request access to or removal of your Personal Information, you may contact us. For information about how you may request removal of your Personal Information, or other rights you may have with respect to your Personal Information, see our FAQ.
We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. Please note also that you may be able to exercise some of these rights without our intervention. For example, if you are a registered user, you can access and update some Personal Information in your Preferences, as well as download your user account data.
You may also manage what kinds of notifications you receive and how often you receive them by going to your Notifications Preferences. For the protection of the Wikimedia Foundation and other users, if you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Wikimedia Sites.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California, with servers and data centers located in the U. If you decide to use Wikimedia Sites, whether from inside or outside of the U. You also understand that your information may be transferred by us from the U.
We are strongly committed to protecting users' Personal Information. Under this Policy, we may share your information only under particular situations, which you can learn more about in the "When May We Share Your Information" section of this Privacy Policy. In particular, we do not share your Personal Information for marketing purposes. Because we protect all users in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we do not change our behavior in response to a web browser's "do not track" signal.
Substantial changes to this Policy will not be made until after a public comment period of at least 30 days. Because things naturally change over time and we want to ensure our Privacy Policy accurately reflects our practices and the law, it may be necessary to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time.
We reserve the right to do so in the following manner:. We ask that you please review the most up-to-date version of our Privacy Policy.
Your continued use of the Wikimedia Sites after any effective date of a subsequent version of this Privacy Policy constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy on your part. If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy wikimedia. If you are located in the European Economic Area and have questions about your personal data or would like to request to access, update, or delete it, you may contact our representative via email at EUrepresentative.
Wikimedia twobirds. If you are an individual located in the United Kingdom, and have questions about your personal data or would like to request to access, update, or delete it, you may contact our representative via email at UKrepresentative. Our European Economic Area and United Kingdom Representative can only be contacted for queries in relation to data protection.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you also may have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority competent for your country or region. Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. We hope you enjoy using the Wikimedia Sites and appreciate your participation in creating, maintaining, and constantly working to improve the largest repository of free knowledge in the world.
Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this Privacy Policy and a translation, the original English version takes precedence. This version was approved by Amanda Keton on June 7, , pursuant to the Delegation of policy-making authority by the Board, and went into effect on June 25, Previous versions can be found below:. From the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki. Privacy Policy. This is a summary of the Privacy Policy.
To read the full terms, scroll down or click here. Disclaimer: This summary is not a part of the Privacy Policy and is not a legal document. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the full Privacy Policy. Think of it as the user-friendly interface to our Privacy Policy. Register for an account without providing an email address or real name. Because we want to understand how Wikimedia Sites are used so we can make them better for you, we collect some information when you: Make public contributions.
Register an account or update your user page. Use the Wikimedia Sites. Send us emails or participate in a survey or give feedback. We are committed to: Describing how your information may be used or shared in this Privacy Policy. Using reasonable measures to keep your information secure. Never selling your information or sharing it with third parties for marketing purposes. Only sharing your information in limited circumstances, such as to improve the Wikimedia Sites , to comply with the law , or to protect you and others.
Retaining your data for the shortest possible time that is consistent with maintaining, understanding, and improving the Wikimedia Sites, and our obligations under applicable law. Be aware: Any content you add or any change that you make to a Wikimedia Site will be publicly and permanently available. If you add content or make a change to a Wikimedia Site without logging in , that content or change will be publicly and permanently attributed to the IP address used at the time rather than a username.
Our community of volunteer editors and contributors is a self-policing body. Certain administrators of the Wikimedia Sites, who are chosen by the community, use tools that grant them limited access to nonpublic information about recent contributions so they may protect the Wikimedia Sites and enforce policies.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to all sites and services run by the Wikimedia Foundation, such as sites or services that have their own privacy policy like the Wikimedia Shop or sites or services run by third parties like third-party developer projects on Wikimedia Cloud Services.
As part of our commitment to education and research around the world, we occasionally release public information and aggregated or non-personal information to the general public through data dumps and data sets. Use of info. Important info.
This Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your Personal Information. We collect very little Personal Information about you. We do not rent or sell your Personal Information to third parties. By using Wikimedia Sites, you consent to this Policy. Definitions Back to top. To be clear, while we do not necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at least the following to be "personal information" if it is otherwise nonpublic and can be used to identify you: a your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, user-agent information, payment account number; b when associated with one of the items in subsection a , any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion.
This includes other Wikimedia users and independent organizations or groups who help promote the Wikimedia movement such as Wikimedia chapters , thematic organizations , and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients , and contractors of those organizations or groups. Back to top. Whatever you post on Wikimedia Sites can be seen and used by everyone. Publicly Visible Information. You do not need to create an account to use any Wikimedia Site. Want to create an account?
Don't want to create an account? No problem! More on Usernames. Location Information. Some features we offer work better if we know what area you are in. IP Addresses. We use certain technologies to collect information about how you use Wikimedia Sites. Information We Receive Automatically. Information We Collect. More on Locally Stored Data. We and our service providers use your information for the legitimate purpose of pursuing our charitable mission, including: Operating the Wikimedia Sites, sharing your contributions and administering our Services.
Providing customized Services. Sending emails with news updates and communications about items we believe may be of interest to you. Sending optional surveys and requesting feedback. Improving the Wikimedia Sites and making your user experience safer and better. Location information.
With Your Permission. For Legal Reasons. If the Organization is Transferred Really Unlikely! We, or users with certain administrative rights, use and disclose Personal Information that is reasonably necessary to: enforce or investigate potential violations of the Wikimedia Foundation or community-based policies; protect our organization, infrastructure, employees, contractors, or the public; or prevent imminent or serious bodily harm or death to a person.
To Our Service Providers. We give volunteer developers and researchers access to systems that contain your Personal Information to allow them to protect, develop, and contribute to the Wikimedia Sites. We also share non-Personal Information or aggregated information with third parties interested in studying the Wikimedia Sites. When we share Personal Information with third parties for these purposes, we put reasonable technical and contractual protections in place to protect your Personal Information consistent with this Policy and our legitimate interest.
Because You Made It Public. Information that you post is public and can be seen and used by everyone. Your rights. Changes to This Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to do so in the following manner: In the event of substantial changes, we will provide the proposed changes to our users in at least three 3 languages selected at our discretion for an open comment period lasting at least thirty 30 calendar days.
Prior to the start of any comment period, we will provide notice of such changes and the opportunity to comment via the Wikimedia Sites, and via a notification on WikimediaAnnounce-L or a similar mailing list. For minor changes, such as grammatical fixes, administrative or legal changes, or corrections of inaccurate statements, we will post the changes and, when possible, provide at least three 3 calendar days' prior notice via WikimediaAnnounce-L or similar mailing list.
Contact Us If you have questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, or the information collected under this Privacy Policy, please email us at privacy wikimedia. Thank You! Categories : Privacy policy Policies. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Feedback View history. Donate Volunteering Wikipedia Store. Give feedback Recent changes. Given that much information is contested among a diversity of Wikipedians, the discussion page is where everything is debated and brought to a consensus.
In turn, this consensus is mirrored in the article page. Or is it a term agreed on by a majority? Scanning through this debate enabled us to avoid starting an already ongoing discussion anew with our potential edits. More strikingly, it broadened our horizon and knowledge on the topic by bringing up unexpected arguments from diverse perspectives, in our case including even the scientific disciplines of fellow users.
On the technical side, the straightforward online text editor with the workable article allows for effortless editing. And in the worst case, what happens if the article is damaged, due to incorrect editing? Regarding the latter, there is good news.
A post publication peer-review system prevents newbies from breaking stuff. That means anything can be easily undone. Unfortunately, regarding the former question, on how to edit, there is no short answer. You may be largely familiar with the style and structure of Wikipedia articles, because you have already read many of them before.
Also, there are many similarities to academic writing, in terms of neutrality and summarizing. The difference to academic writing is mainly that accessibility for everyone is prioritized over precise scientific concepts and debates.
Drawing on those sources, we prepared a short list of the most helpful rules:. After feeling safe enough, we eventually made a few edits in the article. For the purpose of this experiment, we decided to edit information with increasing degrees of intrusiveness based on the journal article and further academic references. The actions we took were:. For example, with regards to the final edit, the initial Wikipedia article very briefly mentioned the opportunity of open peer review to fight predatory publishing.
At the same time, it elaborately outlined why that would not be an appropriate idea. This automatically led to a rather negative final evaluation of the case, despite being an ongoing debate.
We tried to balance such a one-sided evaluation by providing further information on why open peer-review may help countering predatory journals.
As mentioned earlier, being a new Wikipedian, none of the edits directly went out to the world, but they were seen and reviewed internally by logged-in users beforehand. A few days passed, and soon we got notifications on the site telling us the fortunate news. Almost all our edits had been accepted with some minor changes and helpful corrections. Hello world! Those edits can now be seen by anyone accessing the article. We made quite a few mistakes, despite being somewhat paranoid and trying our best to read through all the guidelines.
Luckily, there is a vibrant community, which prevents lasting damage. For instance, while editing, a browser plug-in broke many links in the article. Thanks for correcting it though. A bit later, another user wrote a few more elaborate and friendly messages to us on our personal user page, explaining our misdeed while simultaneously pointing out that it was not a big issue.
Using this as a happy accident, the case was further discussed in a technical forum on Wikipedia, and we found the root of the problem: our Citavi browser plug-in. If you made it until here, nothing can stop you from your first edit! After getting a foot in the door, editing is easy, fun, and an inspiring reflection about the everyday negotiation of scientific knowledge.
There is a lot of potential to communicate research from you and your academic community in Wikipedia. Elephant in the Lab. Please review our comments policy if you have any concerns on posting a comment below.
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