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Policy for @wikimedia.se e-mail addresses
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There are currently no policies or guidelines for the use of @wikimedia.se e-mail addresses (other than this). This should be addressed and the currently used e-mails surveyed.

There are personal addresses for staff, board, volunteers as well as functional e-mail addresses. These are never retired so there are still addresses for former staff/board/volunteers as well as functional addresses for retired projects. This is also true, although to a lesser extent for some of the other domain names managed by WMSE.

As a result of this:

  • we have so many active e-mail addresses that it is hard to get an overview of who has them
  • there is no overview (either internally or externally) of which functional addresses we have and which get used where
  • e-mails sent to addresses of former staff/board/volunteers likely go unanswered
  • there are no guidelines for how received mail should be handled (from a GDPR point of view), e.g. disallowing forwarding these to non-EU hosted webbmail services
  • there are no guidelines for how to deal with theoretical abuse (i.e. someone using an e-mail to make statements in the name of the organisation)

A non-public list of the addresses (functional and personal) can be found in this spreadsheet on Drive.

Event Timeline

My suggestion is:

  • Only board and employees have personal @wikimedia.se addresses
    • The policy for @wikimedia.se addresses disallows it's users from forwarding these to non-EU (or non GDPR compliant) services. [i.e. these addresses are covered by our Privacy policy]
    • When an employee/board member quits this address is either redirected to info@ or we set up an autoreply.
    • When an employee/board member quits they are offered a @frivillig.wikimedia.se addresses in case they are still involved in the organisation.
  • Volunteers have personal @frivillig.wikimedia.se addresses
    • No policy (other than against abuse) governs the @frivillig.wikimedia.se addresses [i.e. these addresses are not covered by our Privacy policy]
  • All current (non-board/non-employee) holders of @wikimedia.se addresses get an e-mail sent to that address explaining the situation and asking if they still need/want/use it.
    • Positive reply: Assign the corresponding @frivillig.wikimedia.se address
    • Negative reply: Delete/autoreply the address
    • Non-reply: Delete/autoreply the address

This leaves the question of function e-mails:
For clarity these should be governed by the same policy as other @wikimedia.se addresses. However many of them currently redirect to non-employee addresses (e.g. valberedning@ and faddrar@). Forcing these recipients to handle the e-mail according to the same rules as board members/employees may not be feasible. One solution is to explicitly list which addresses are and which aren't covered by our Privacy policy.
The function e-mails in use (other than plain redirects) should be listed and explained in a similar way to the existing list of domains on our wiki.

A draft text is being worked on. A couple of questions remain to iron out before sharing it with the board.

Jopparn triaged this task as High priority.Sep 6 2018, 2:25 PM
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The policy can be found here: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Riktlinjer_för_e-postadresser

The policy specifies that: "För @wikimedia.se-adresser har Wikimedia Sveriges personal, av tekniska orsaker, tillgång till innehållet. Därför rekommenderas i första hand e-postadresser som nyttjar andra domäner (såsom @wikipedia.se)."

Hence, we can let people keep their @wikimedia.se emails if they prefer.

Before switching the other "Förtroendevalda" to Gsuite we need to confirm that our Chair has informed them about the new policy. I will email the chair this week.

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