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For legal ethical reasons, we unfortunately can only represent the Wikimedia Foundation and cannot be the attorney for the community or movement organizations, though the legal team often provides strong support to the community in many ways consistent with Wikimedia movement's goals.

Recent Activity

Fri, Nov 8

Gehel edited projects for T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda, added: Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29); removed Data-Platform-SRE (2024.10.19 - 2024.11.08).
Fri, Nov 8, 9:48 AM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal

Thu, Oct 31

Krinkle added a comment to T216520: Alternative Wikidata logo for social media and circular frames.

For brand recognition, we may not want to heavily transform or cut out from a project's logo.

Thu, Oct 31, 12:19 AM · WMF-Communications, Wikimedia-Design, Logos, Wikidata, Design, WMF-Legal

Tue, Oct 29

Gehel added a comment to T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda.

Business Arrangement Request has been sent in Coupa.

Tue, Oct 29, 2:36 PM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal

Mon, Oct 28

Jdforrester-WMF added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

Thank you!

Mon, Oct 28, 12:32 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Mon, Oct 21

matmarex closed T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0 as Resolved.

Everything looks as expected to me. I don't know what the problem two years ago could have been.

Mon, Oct 21, 8:29 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Stashbot added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-10-21T20:21:07Z] <tgr@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1081445|Re-apply "Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages" (T301483)]] (duration: 09m 48s)

Mon, Oct 21, 8:21 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Stashbot added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-10-21T20:13:36Z] <tgr@deploy2002> matmarex, tgr: Backport for [[gerrit:1081445|Re-apply "Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages" (T301483)]] synced to the testservers (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug)

Mon, Oct 21, 8:13 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Stashbot added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2024-10-21T20:11:19Z] <tgr@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1081445|Re-apply "Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages" (T301483)]]

Mon, Oct 21, 8:11 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
gerritbot added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

Change #1081445 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Re-apply "Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1081445

Mon, Oct 21, 8:11 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Sun, Oct 20

Pppery closed T225709: Allow autoconfirmed-users to edit and delete posts on StructuredDiscussions at euwiki as Invalid.

Per https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezi:ListGroupRights?uselang=en at the time of writing autoconfirmed users already have the flow-edit-post right.

Sun, Oct 20, 2:39 AM · Growth-Team-Filtering, WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Growth-Team

Fri, Oct 18

gerritbot added a project to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0: Patch-For-Review.
Fri, Oct 18, 8:28 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
gerritbot added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

Change #1081445 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Re-apply "Set special footer licence message for MediaWiki.org re. Help: pages"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1081445

Fri, Oct 18, 8:28 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
matmarex added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

It looks like it should work… I can give it a try.

Fri, Oct 18, 8:27 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
BTullis edited projects for T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda, added: Data-Platform-SRE (2024.10.19 - 2024.11.08); removed Data-Platform-SRE (2024.09.28 - 2024.10.18).
Fri, Oct 18, 3:08 PM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal

Oct 16 2024

Jdforrester-WMF added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

The config change was reverted in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/790337, so the new footer has not been deployed. I just ran into the unused messages in WikimediaMessages, and I'm wondering whether this change is still desirable, or whether the best course of action would be to remove them.

Oct 16 2024, 7:21 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests
Urbanecm_WMF moved T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack from Triaged to Blocked on the Growth-Team board.

Submitted a L3SC, to learn more about Legal's standpoint on this suggestion. Link for WMF staff: https://app.asana.com/0/1200593981796154/1208524172805723/f.

Oct 16 2024, 12:43 PM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General

Oct 15 2024

Nicolas_Raoul added a comment to T21153: Enable dng uploads on Commons.

Commons Android app team here, we really want to implement DNG upload in the app as soon as possible.
It will be transparent for the user, as the app can find the DNG file associated to the JPG being uploaded.

Oct 15 2024, 1:10 PM · WMF-Legal, MediaWiki-extensions-PagedTiffHandler, Commons, MediaWiki-File-management

Oct 10 2024

Urbanecm_WMF added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

Submitted a L3SC, to learn more about Legal's standpoint on this suggestion. Link for WMF staff: https://app.asana.com/0/1200593981796154/1208524172805723/f.

Oct 10 2024, 7:36 PM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
Urbanecm_WMF updated the task description for T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.
Oct 10 2024, 6:59 PM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
Urbanecm_WMF updated the task description for T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.
Oct 10 2024, 6:58 PM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General

Sep 27 2024

Gehel edited projects for T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda, added: Data-Platform-SRE (2024.09.28 - 2024.10.18); removed Data-Platform-SRE (2024.09.06 - 2024.09.27).
Sep 27 2024, 1:00 PM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal

Sep 26 2024

Maintenance_bot removed a project from T218618: Add no-transform to Cache-Control header: Patch-For-Review.
Sep 26 2024, 5:31 PM · Traffic, WMF-Legal, Privacy
BCornwall closed T218618: Add no-transform to Cache-Control header as Resolved.
Sep 26 2024, 5:03 PM · Traffic, WMF-Legal, Privacy
gerritbot added a comment to T218618: Add no-transform to Cache-Control header.

Change #917954 merged by BCornwall:

[operations/puppet@production] varnish: Set Cache-Control: no-transform header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/917954

Sep 26 2024, 5:00 PM · Traffic, WMF-Legal, Privacy

Sep 25 2024

matmarex added a comment to T301483: Change the copyright warning for Mediawikiwiki's Help: namespace to CC0.

The config change was reverted in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/790337, so the new footer has not been deployed. I just ran into the unused messages in WikimediaMessages, and I'm wondering whether this change is still desirable, or whether the best course of action would be to remove them.

Sep 25 2024, 6:55 PM · MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.10; 2022-05-02), WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Sep 24 2024

sbassett added a project to T265726: Assign oathauth-verify-user to bureaucrats on WMF wikis: Privacy Engineering.

Tagging Privacy Engineering to get this in their queue as they have direct interactions with WMF-Legal (which isn't really active on Phabricator at all AIUI).

Sep 24 2024, 2:08 PM · Privacy Engineering, WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Privacy
Urbanecm reopened T265726: Assign oathauth-verify-user to bureaucrats on WMF wikis as "Open".

Yep. I don't quite agree with this, but Legal signed this off, and that was the sole reason for the Declined status.

Sep 24 2024, 9:25 AM · Privacy Engineering, WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Privacy
Xaosflux added a comment to T265726: Assign oathauth-verify-user to bureaucrats on WMF wikis.

Could we re-open this Task? According to https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy/Exceptions the legal issue should be resolved.

Sep 24 2024, 9:13 AM · Privacy Engineering, WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Privacy
Ameisenigel added a comment to T265726: Assign oathauth-verify-user to bureaucrats on WMF wikis.

Could we re-open this Task? According to https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy/Exceptions the legal issue should be resolved.

Sep 24 2024, 9:11 AM · Privacy Engineering, WMF-Legal, Wikimedia-Site-requests, Privacy

Sep 20 2024

Gehel moved T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda from Backlog - operations to Blocked/Waiting on the Data-Platform-SRE (2024.09.06 - 2024.09.27) board.
Sep 20 2024, 7:47 AM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal
Gehel triaged T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda as High priority.
Sep 20 2024, 7:47 AM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal

Sep 13 2024

Gehel moved T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda from Backlog - project to Backlog - operations on the Data-Platform-SRE (2024.09.06 - 2024.09.27) board.
Sep 13 2024, 8:49 AM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal

Sep 12 2024

Peachey88 added a project to T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda: Software-Licensing.
Sep 12 2024, 7:32 PM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal
Gehel updated the task description for T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda.
Sep 12 2024, 9:59 AM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal
Gehel created T374602: Licensing / Legal risk around the use of Miniconda.

As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!

Sep 12 2024, 9:50 AM · Data-Platform-SRE (2024.11.09 - 2024.11.29), Software-Licensing, WMF-Legal

Sep 11 2024

Hamishcn added a project to T374455: Create the "arbcom" user group on zhwiki: WMF-Legal.

As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!

Sep 11 2024, 12:49 AM · Trust and Safety Product Team, IP Info, Chinese-Sites, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Sep 10 2024

kostajh moved T357959: Install CheckUser in Beta Cluster from Inbox to Triaged on the Temporary accounts board.
Sep 10 2024, 12:09 PM · CheckUser, Trust and Safety Product Team, WMF-Legal, Trust-and-Safety, Temporary accounts, Beta-Cluster-Infrastructure
Reedy added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

xref T269674: Decide on including (or not) Wikibase specific information in MediaWiki Pingback's event schema specifically, but T269666: [EPIC] Create a Wikibase Pingback based on MW Pingback too.

Sep 10 2024, 9:22 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
Reedy added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

See also: Wikibase Pingback

Sep 10 2024, 9:00 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
DMburugu added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

Yes Martin, you are not @Reedy 😂. When I went through the schema, my limited understanding was that there's more that's still being sent. For instance, when I saw that it's sending the Mediawiki version, I assumed that it somehow sends more stuff about the MediaWiki installation with the version.

Sep 10 2024, 8:47 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
Urbanecm_WMF added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

@Reedy do we need a legal review if we want to include our extensions in the opt-in list for the pingback extension? I tagged you since you have worked on a patch related to MediaWiki pingback

Sep 10 2024, 8:30 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
Urbanecm_WMF added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

Good to know we have a patter for that. So if we have the extensions added in the same format as the PrefUpdateInstrumentation, any time someone installs or uninstalls the extensions we've added in the opt-in list we'll receive the data?

Sep 10 2024, 8:24 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
DMburugu updated subscribers of T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

@Reedy do we need a legal review if we want to include our extensions in the opt-in list for the pingback extension? I tagged you since you have worked on a patch related to MediaWiki pingback

Sep 10 2024, 8:24 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
DMburugu added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

Good to know we have a patter for that. So if we have the extensions added in the same format as the PrefUpdateInstrumentation, any time someone installs or uninstalls the extensions we've added in the opt-in list we'll receive the data?

Sep 10 2024, 8:19 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General

Sep 9 2024

Urbanecm_WMF added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

@Urbanecm_WMF Would the second option work by us whitelisting which extensions we want to receive from the third-party Wiki?

Sep 9 2024, 10:34 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
DMburugu added a comment to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack.

@Urbanecm_WMF Would the second option work by us whitelisting which extensions we want to receive from the third-party Wiki?

Sep 9 2024, 10:06 AM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General

Sep 6 2024

Dzahn closed T299839: Clarify whether members of ldap/nda should be added to #WMF-NDA, a subtask of T349595: Clarify if NDAs (to access #WMF-NDA protected Phab tasks) are on paper or in Legalpad's L2 or both, as Resolved.
Sep 6 2024, 8:34 PM · WMF-Legal, Legalpad, User-AKlapper, Phabricator, WMF-NDA-Requests

Sep 2 2024

Urbanecm_WMF moved T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack from Inbox to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.
Sep 2 2024, 5:10 PM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
Urbanecm_WMF added a project to T373809: Add information about installed extensions to MediaWiki's PingBack: WMF-Legal.

As the WMF-Legal project tag was added to this task, some general information to avoid wrong expectations:
Please note that public tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator are in general not a place where to expect feedback from the Legal Team of the Wikimedia Foundation due to the scope of the team and/or nature of legal topics. See the project tag description.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal for when and how to contact the Legal Team. Thanks!

Sep 2 2024, 1:52 PM · WMF-Legal, Growth-Team, Privacy, MediaWiki-General
Dreamy_Jazz closed T132892: CheckUser UI revamp, a subtask of T139810: RFC: Overhaul the CheckUser extension, as Resolved.
Sep 2 2024, 1:37 PM · Goal, Epic, User-notice, WMF-Legal, Trust-and-Safety, Stewards-and-global-tools, CheckUser