Chad wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> But UK-based MediaWiki sites should be OK, shouldn't they? Does >> MediaWiki use cookies for anything other than login functionality? Not >> sure if the "You must have cookies enabled to log in to SITENAME" bit >> will need rewording for tediously strict compliance. >> > > MediaWiki core only uses cookies for logging in, and nothing else. > Lots of extensions probably use cookies for stuff, so I can't speak > for them. > > -Chad
Well, you could argue that the UserName cookie is not strictly necessary (specially when logged out), although you would too have a hard time explaining a judge why the LoggedOut one is needed. However, I think that a disclaimer at Special:UserLogin explaining that by logging in you store a few cookies should be enough. I welcome that privacy is being taken more seriously, though. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
