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== Rationale for the privacy form ==

I can not understand the rationale for having participants in a course/event/edit-a-thon to [[ProgramsGrants:Evaluation_portalEvaluation/Shop/Wikimetrics/Forms|fill a form to opt-in in Wikimetrics]]. In principle I could get any set of random user names from the history of any page, create a CSV file, upload it on Wikimetrics and analyse the users' activity. Without even meeting anybody. So why for events do we need an opt-in form? Again, in principle I could do this kind of analysis downloading the complete dump of a given edition of Wikipedia and write some tools to calculate the some things that Wikimetrics does. All that without asking anybody.

Given this premise, with Wikimedia Italia we organized recently a course for librarians (see the [[:w:it:Progetto:GLAM/Biblioteche/Progetti/Wikipedia_e_bibliotecari:_un_incontro_possibil|project page]]) where every participant created a personal account. We then asked everybody to put their usernames in that page so that we could monitor their progress with Wikimetrics. We did not know about this opt-in form until today and so they have not signed it, even if they have been explicitly warned during the course. What can we do? Thank you. -- [[User:CristianCantoro|CristianCantoro]] ([[User talk:CristianCantoro|talk]]) 11:37, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

:Thank you [[User:CristianCantoro|Cristian]] for your comment and chance for clarification. You are correct that, in many cases, participant user names are a matter of public record, in that case it may not be necessary, but a matter of operating in a completely open manner in which participants actually approve of their being tracked and monitored via Wikimetrics which make it rather simple to do so. Importantly, Wikimetrics increases accessibility to metric data in a way that user names are transferred to Wikimedia Foundation (internationally to the United States) and to best cover everyones privacy interests and protections we need to allow them to opt in, as well as out, of this monitoring when we know we are collecting usernames explicitly for this purpose. The particular language and guidance for disclosing the who, what, where, and why that have been thoughtfully crafted by the WMF legal team to be sure privacy interests are protected and transparency is upheld. This is a shift in practice that we are working to assist program leaders in coordinating so that the future collection of usernames will best protect all parties interested. The usernames you already have public record of are still useable, we just recommend that you also allow people to opt out should they become aware of this usage of their usernames and wish to be excluded from monitoring (you may want to post the language and possibly instructions for "opting out" on the page they added their names to). I hope this helps, please let me know if I can answer any further. [[User:JAnstee (WMF)|JAnstee (WMF)]] ([[User talk:JAnstee (WMF)|talk]]) 21:58, 10 December 2013 (UTC)