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This page is an official policy
. It was established as necessary.
The Test Wiki is 99% fun, but this page belongs to the remaining 1%. In simple words, this is
very serious and important
stuff: don't mess with it.
Information we collect
We do not sell private information collected about you. Private information collected about you is only released if you choose to release it or under very limited circumstances defined below.
Each time you visit the wiki, we collect and store the following information:
Your current IP address
Information about your device and browser
Your browsing activity on the site
If any data sent along with your request triggered automated security features, that data may be logged
We collect this information under the category of Legitimate Interest in order to provide you with our services. We collect this data in order to detect anomalous behavior that could indicate potential security breaches and to help improve the site. This data is only available to server administrators and certain subsets may be made available to the following 3rd parties in certain circumstances:
Your IP address may be made available to MaxMind (
MaxMind's privacy policy
) and/or Spur (
Spur's privacy policy
) each time you attempt to edit a page or register for an account. This is used for automated abuse detection.
Each time you edit or otherwise modify the wiki, we collect and store the following information:
What username you are currently logged in as, if any
Your current IP address
Your current user agent (browser)
We collect this information under the category of Legitimate Interest in order to provide you with our services. Your username is given public attribution to edit. If you are not logged in, your IP address is given public attribution instead. Your IP address and browser are stored for 90 days, and are viewable by all
check users
via the CheckUser utility for the purposes of fighting spam and vandalism on this wiki. Use of IP address and browser information recovered from the CheckUser utility are governed by the
CheckUser policy
Information obtained via CheckUser may become publicly available in an effort to curb spam and vandalism on the wiki. For example, a check user may publicly block an IP address or IP address range belonging to a spammer. As the block log is public, and the block usually happens shortly after blocking the username belonging to the spammer, this in effect makes the spammer's IP or IP range public. Check users also have the discretion of sharing private information gained via CheckUser to administrators of other wikis that are likely to be impacted by the same spammer or vandal, in an effort to curb cross-wiki abuse.
When you sign up for an account, we collect and store the following information:
Your username
Your email address (optional)
Your real name (optional)
We collect this information under the category of Consent; see
closing your account
for instructions on how to revoke this consent in the future. You are strongly encouraged to
create an account
before you start editing this wiki. It is the only way to get to test administrative tools and will also hide your IP address from the public. Your username and real name will be public. Your email address is used to send password reset reminders and optionally to allow other users to email you via
Special:EmailUser
(this will not expose your email address to them, although replying to their email may do so). When you use the EmailUser feature to email another user, your email address is exposed to that user.
Closing your account
You cannot delete your contributions in general, with exceptions listed in the
suppression policy
(note that suppression hides data from the public but does not delete it entirely). To close your account (preventing anyone from logging in or using it in the future), please email a steward or post a message on a steward's talk page for assistance. Closing an account is irreversible and does not delete or remove any contributions that account has made. Upon request, a closed account can be anonymized (renamed to something similar to "Vanished user 1234"). This anonymization will also re-attribute all contributions made by the account to the new name, however any references to the old name in page content will remain intact. Real names and email addresses are deleted from all closed accounts, regardless of whether or not you opted to anonymize your username.
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