OniGalore:Privacy policy: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 18:44, 3 April 2026

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Being a modest-sized community of fans, there is no explicit, official privacy policy for our wiki. If you're curious what such a policy would look like, you can look at the policy for Wikipedia. The basic ideas outlined there apply here too:

We collect little data on our users that isn't collected by an ordinary web site. Your IP address is logged for a while after making an edit, but is apparently deleted by the software after some time (you should inquire with the developers of MediaWiki if you want more information on this).
All edits that you make are permanently associated with your user account, and any other user can view a list of your edits at any time.
If you use the "E-mail this user" feature found in the Sidebar when on a user's page, you will reveal your email address to that user.
User accounts are not removable in MediaWiki, but we may change your name upon request.
Edits that you've made are not removable because a wiki retains a history of all changes, even when those changes are reverted. We can delete a page you made, but it can also be undeleted at any time by a sysop. Individual edits can be hidden in the page history, but those can also be revealed later at a sysop's discretion.
Work that you submit here supposedly falls under the GNU Free Documentation License (see OniGalore:Copyrights for complications).
We would have to release any information we collected on you in the unlikely event of a subpoena or other compulsory request from a law-enforcement agency.

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 *If you use the "E-mail this user" feature found in the Sidebar when on a user's page, you will reveal your email address to that user.
 *User accounts are not removable in MediaWiki, but we may change your name upon request.
-*Edits that you've made are not removable, in that a wiki retains a history of all changes, even when those changes are reverted. We can delete a page you made, but it can also be undeleted at any time by a [[OniGalore:Administrators|sysop]].
+*Edits that you've made are not removable because a wiki retains a history of all changes, even when those changes are reverted. We can delete a page you made, but it can also be undeleted at any time by a [[OniGalore:Administrators|sysop]]. Individual edits can be hidden in the page history, but those can also be revealed later at a sysop's discretion.
-*Work that you submit here supposedly falls under the GFDL (see [[OniGalore:Copyrights]] for details).
+*Work that you submit here supposedly falls under the GNU Free Documentation License (see [[OniGalore:Copyrights]] for complications).
-*We would have to release any information we collected on you in the unlikely event of "a [[wp:Subpoena|subpoena]] or other compulsory request from a law-enforcement agency".
+*We would have to release any information we collected on you in the unlikely event of a [[wp:Subpoena|subpoena]] or other compulsory request from a law-enforcement agency.
-Most of you will probably agree that none of the above is anything to be concerned about, but maybe you learned a thing or two, so it was worth reading, eh? Well, back to the wiki!
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