Wikipedia:Privacy policy

The official version of this policy is at Wikimedia:Privacy policy. It is requested that all discussion take place at meta:talk:Privacy policy. Changes to this page are non-official and do not represent the policy of the Wikimedia Foundation. Comments left on the talk page of this policy are not guaranteed to be read by the Wikimedia Board.

If you only read the Wikimedia project websites, no more information is collected than is typically collected in server logs by web sites in general.

If you contribute to the Wikimedia projects, you are publishing every word you post publicly. If you write something, assume that it will be retained forever. This includes articles, user pages and talk pages. They may be deleted at some point, but assume they will not be.