Lexipedium:Privacy policy

Lexipedium is dedicated to maintaining user privacy. As part of this goal, we have created policies that will help protect user privacy.


 * Account creation is required to edit
 * The software that is used by Wikipedia and Lexipedium publicly records the IP address of anyone who edits the wiki. This information can be used to track editors to specific regions or organizations.  By requiring a user account to edit, we are preventing people who are inexperienced with wiki operation from revealing personal information.


 * Multiple account use is allowed
 * Some users here might have an account that is associated with the identity or a username that is used elsewhere that could potentially be connected to their identity. There may be situations where the subject matter that a user is contributing to would not be acceptable to people who they know offline, or they might not want their online username to be associated with particular subjects.  This protection is provided under good faith for people who will use it to make legitimate edits to contentious articles.  It is not intended for people with ahistorical motives.


 * Check user and other tools that could expose personal information are not given to web level administrators
 * Unlike Wikipedia, the only users who have access to personal information, including IP addresses, email addresses, and suppressed revisions on the wiki are server level administrators who would have access to that information anyway. Wiki access is only given to them to make access faster.


 * Sockpuppet accusations and discussions are prohibited
 * If a previously banned user creates a new account and makes legitimate edits, the fact that they were banned is irrelevant. If they commit abuse, they can be banned for that alone.  Because of the reason why multiple account use is permitted, any suggestion of sockpuppetry will be treated as an attempt to reveal personal information.  In order to prevent users from abusing this policy and using sockpuppets to manipulate votes and provide non existed support, any users who appear to act in concert on a single issue will be restricted to a single collective vote.  This also applies to long term users without previous connection to a subject to prevent vote manipulation.

Tracking software
Lexipedium does not use social media buttons or Google Analytics, as these allow third parties to track the activities of anyone on the website. Without donations, Lexipedium may fall back on using Google AdSense, but this will be avoided if at all possible to prevent tracking and malware distribution. Lexipedium will prefer to run self hosted ads. Tracking software is self developed and only provides information to Lexipedium administrators analyze website traffic without sending information to third parties.