About your data
wiki+ is a prototype — a curation layer that sits alongside Wikipedia. This page plainly describes what the prototype stores about you and what it doesn't. It is not a legal privacy policy or terms of service, and it doesn't offer data-export or account-deletion requests; if wiki+ grows into a full service, a proper privacy policy will come with it.
Reading is anonymous
You can browse topics, read the Wikipedia articles, search, and watch the curated videos without logging in. Reading stores no identity about you and sets no login cookie. The article text is fetched straight from Wikipedia as you read it.
What logging in and contributing stores
You only log in when you want to contribute — add a clip, write a context note, upvote, or rule a suggestion out. Logging in uses your Wikimedia account (the same one you use to edit Wikipedia); wiki+ never sees or stores a password. When you log in and contribute, wiki+ stores:
- A link to your Wikimedia account — a stable account identifier and the profile details Wikimedia shares (your username, and your name, email, and avatar if you've made them available), so we can recognize you on your next visit and credit your work.
- A session cookie — a signed cookie in your browser that keeps you logged in. There is no server-side session record; signing out clears it.
- Your curation contributions — the clips and context notes you publish, the curation actions you take (such as upvotes and ruled-out suggestions), and any reviewer role you may be granted. Your published clips and notes are credited to your username.
What's public, and what's never shown
Public: your Wikimedia username, your avatar (if Wikimedia shares one), and the clips and context notes you publish — these appear on your contributor page and on the topics you curate, credited to you.
Never shown publicly: your email is never displayed anywhere on wiki+, and neither are the other private details from your account. Which videos you upvoted or ruled out, and any reviewer role you hold, are not shown on your public page either.
That's the whole picture for the prototype. Questions about your Wikimedia account itself are covered by Wikimedia's own privacy policy.