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.
Main issues:
- Right to access and be informed
- Right to rectification
- Right to be forgotten
- Right to data portability
- Right to restrict / object processing
- Breach notification
What others do
- Position papers
- OSM: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:GDPR_Position_Paper.pdf
- EasyRedmine: https://www.easyredmine.com/contacts/gdpr-compliance
- Plugins, modules or extensions to the core software
- CiviCRM and GDPR (by Veda Consulting) Docs and GitHub repo for the extension: https://github.com/veda-consulting/uk.co.vedaconsulting.gdpr Note: this extension includes 'anonymizer' functionality
- Wordpress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gdpr/
- Joomla!: https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/gdpr/
- Adopt core software
- EasyRedmine
- Code
GDPR and MediaWiki
- Marcus Glaser's presentation at Wikimedia Hackathon - Barcelona 2018/05/19 - Presentation slides
- 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 "Download Your Data"[1]
- Wikia has developed a JavaScript project (using yarn for package management) for tracking opt-in
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194901
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gdpr
- mw:Topic:Ud7xbwbzxcgyfgzm How to make a MediaWiki website "more" compliant to GDPR?
- mw:Topic:Ucy8sfl44i6n6i51 GDPR Compliance Discussion on MW.org
- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and MediaWiki software
Links
References
- ↑ Keep in mind that they run on REL 1_19, so it will need to be ported to a recent release