Extension talk:Privacy

"After downloading and extracting it to the extensions folder, how do you actually activate this extension? And how do you use it? Are there some special pages? I know I could just go to bluespice.com to get it there, but that would mean a complete new MediaWiki, requiring the reinstallation of everything."

I'm very curious about this extension. I think it might improve adoption to describe what this extension does, and what it does not do.

For example I don't think it's designed to touch the username from talk pages. Isn't it? (I don't want t to say that I need it. Just that probably it could be useful to mention a small bullet list of things that are covered, and few well-known things that are probably not included - or that are OK to be not included)

Also, I would like to import some documentation from here: https://en.wiki.bluespice.com/wiki/Reference:BlueSpicePrivacy but I see that the "Creative Commons BY-SA" badge is not shown on the footer. Is it known? I think importing documentation would improve adoption, and give benefits to the author in terms of potential new collaborations. Thank you for what you can do.

The Creative Commons licence is missing. Thank you for pointing this out! We will rebuild it. You can always transfer content from there to mediawiki.org.

@MLRodrigue:

Thanks for your feedback about the information for this extension. You are correct, the signatures are currently not affected by this extension. I have created an internal ticket for it, however, since it would make sense to anonymize this info as well. Other than that, I think the bullet list pretty much describes what the extension does.

You can add any information you find useful to the current description by taking it from the BlueSpice helpdesk. We try to keep only the most important info about the extension directly on the mediawiki extension page to avoid having to maintain the info twice.

I did add a link to the user manual page for this extension. And will add some more screenshots as well.

Thank you. So, if I understand correctly, these are the consequences of the anonymization process:

• the contents on the user page will no longer be accessible
• contributions will not be deleted but will be assigned to another anonymous user, so from the History page it is not possible to trace the author

Note: the user already-has the autonomy to remove its firm from talk pages etc. So, if the individual user has announced his or her username (for example using a firm) on a discussion page or inside a wikitext etc., that info could and should be removed manually from the user itself, before requesting the anonymization.

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Or something like that.

Does it make sense?

• The user page gets moved to the new anonymized user. The contents do not get deleted. The user can from now on log in with the new anonymized user name and the original password.
• old username gets replaced with anon-name in version history and logs so that the original username cannot be determined here.
• user mentions in the pages currently do not get checked. It might be a good idea to run the user name through Special:ReplaceText

Hope this helps.

Also, we now added CC-BY badge to our helpdesk footer.

Do I read this correctly, that this extension does not work without BlueSpice foundation?

Yes. The extension is not yet decoupled from Foundation.

Fixed issue

So I have just installed the privacy extension with the other required extensions, however as an administrator I cannot access the Special:Privacy Admin page, what permissions do I need to add to the group to allow this. I can't find any documentation about this. Many Thanks

You need to have "bs-privacy-admin" permission assigned to one of your groups, "sysop" usually

Thank you. Fixed now.

Does this extension show the GDPR warning to ALL countries or only to EU and other relevant GDPR countries?

It does not differentiate between the countries. Every country gets the same warning.