What is the GDPR, and how does it impact sites running MediaWiki software?
Privacy Legislation coming into effect on May 25th 2018 from the European Union.
== GDPR and MediaWiki ==
{{#ev:youtube|uxTIpr4Ybcg|Marcus Glaser's presentation at Wikimedia Hackathon - Barcelona 2018/05/19}}
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TYbJoZ8SRUe_37mYjIvnVDwpyrrpUNwk6d7ShG3A7Bk/edit#slide=id.g3b288d9cf5_0_11 Marcus Glaser's presentation at Wikimedia Hackathon - Barcelona 2018/05/19 - Presentation slides]
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Privacy The Privacy extension] provides users with a means to maintain their privacy and enables site maintainers to comply with the GDPR.
* Wikia has developed an extension to "[https://github.com/Wikia/app/tree/dev/extensions/wikia/DownloadYourData Download Your Data]"<ref>Keep in mind that they run on REL 1_19, so it will need to be ported to a recent release</ref>
* Wikia has developed a JavaScript project (using [https://yarnpkg.com/en/ yarn for package management]) for [https://github.com/Wikia/tracking-opt-in tracking opt-in]
* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194901
* https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gdpr
* [https[mw://docsTopic:Ud7xbwbzxcgyfgzm How to make a MediaWiki website "more" compliant to GDPR?]]* [[mw:Topic:Ucy8sfl44i6n6i51 GDPR Compliance Discussion on MW.google.com/presentation/d/1TYbJoZ8SRUe_37mYjIvnVDwpyrrpUNwk6d7ShG3A7Bk/edit#slide=id.g3b288d9cf5_0_11 Marcus Glaser's presentation at Wikimedia Hackathon - Barcelona 2018/05/19org]]* https[[mw://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTIpr4YbcgGDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and MediaWiki software|GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and MediaWiki software]]
== Links ==
* [https://gdpr-info.eu/ GDPR legislation]
* [https://iapp.org/news/a/how-to-navigate-the-software-development-life-cycle-under-the-gdpr/ Useful compliation compilation of hotspots]* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ucy8sfl44i6n6i51 Discussion on MW.org]
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