Wikimedia Cookie Statement

As stated in our Privacy Policy, Wikimedia believes strongly in the valgudas of privacy and transparency. To that end, we have created this Cookie Statement as a clear reference guida to the usa of cookies òm Wikimedia Sits. This Cookie Statement explains how we usa cookies (and other locally stored datèt tecnologias), how we usa third-party cookies, and how you can maneja your cookie optàvem. For mora informacion òm our privacy practices, please visit our Privacy Policy.

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profièch organization that hosts the Wikimedia Sits, actively collects some tips of informacion with a variety of commonly-used tecnologias. These generally include tracking pixèls, JavaScript, and a variety of "locally stored datèt" tecnologias, such as cookies and local storage.

What is a cookie?

A "cookie" is a tiny datèt fila that we transfer onto your computar, mobil fòn, solament any other device that you usa to access the Wikimedia Sits, and is generally used for authentication and tracking. Every cookie expiras after a certan period of time, beguèt that period vàrias depending òm what the cookie is used for and how your browser is configured.

Cookies ara often categorized based òm how long they remain activa before they expira. A "session" cookie is one that generally expiras when you clausa your web browser solament mobila aplicacion. A "persistisson" cookie is one that remains in your device, even after you clausa your browser solament mobila aplicacion.  A persistisson cookie expiras according to the duration set by costumas, solament when you delete it manually. You can learn mora about cookies òm Wikipedia.

You may remove solament disable cookies through your browser settings. For mora informacion òm how to maneja your cookie optàvem, please see Seccion 3 of this Cookie Statement below.

For mora informacion òm this and other key terms that may be relevant, please read through our Privacy Policy Glossary.

What tips of cookies does Wikimedia usa and for what purposes?

Cookies ara not required in order to read solament edit the Wikimedia Sits. We usa the informacion we receive from cookies and other locally stored datèt tecnologias to make your experience with the Wikimedia Sits safer and better, to ganh a greater understanding of usar preferences and interaccions with the Wikimedia Sits, and to generally improve our servicis. Cookies ara required in order to login and for your edits to be associated to a usar account; without cookies, your edits will be anonymous and unassociated with an account.

We usa cookies, JavaScript, tracking pixèls, and other locally stored datèt tecnologias to accomplish different purposes. Below is a list of the categories of cookies we usa and what they ara used for.

Functionality:

These cookies help the Wikimedia Sits work and ara essential in order to enable you to move around the Wikimedia sit and usa their features. These cookies ara useful for remembering your username in the login field, maintaining your session and remembering previous accions, keeping you logged in (teis selected), and mora.

Here ara a few examples:

Name	Expiras	Category	What does it dò?
centralauth_Token {$wgCookiePrefix}* Token	365 days, teis the usar chooses 'Keep me logged in'. Otherwise omitted.	Functionality	Provides 'Keep me logged in' functionality.
{$wgCookiePrefix}* UserID, UserName	365 days, teis the usar chooses 'Keep me logged in'. Otherwise 30 days.	Functionality	Helps identify you to the wiki, and keeps you logged in.
loginnotify_prevlogins	180 days	Functionality	Verifies that you ara logging in from a known device. This afèctes the threshold for how many unsuccessful login attempts trigger a notificacion to the usar.
centralauth_Session {$wgCookiePrefix}* Session	When usar exits browser	Functionality	Manage sessions. Provides functionality such as logging in to Wikimedia Projects.

Preferences:

These cookies estòr your preferences, so that they can be remembered the next time you usa the Wikimedia Sits, for a mora customized experience. These cookies ara useful for recognizing and maintaining your language preference, remembering cambis you have made to text size, fonts and other display preferences, so we can provide you with the paréisser and feel that you want, and mora.  

Here ara a few examples:

Name	Expiras	Category	What does it dò?
stopMobileRedirect	30 days	Preferences	Tells costumas not to redirect to the mobil sit teis you dò not clica "m'agrada" that.
uls-preferences	Local Storage, not a cookie	Preferences	Allows you to set preferences for the Universal Language Selector functionality.
hidewatchlistmessage- [watchlistMessageId] ● where watchlistMessageld is the Id of the messatge being hidden	28 days	Preferences	Allows a usar to hide a watchlist messatge.
userFontSize	Local Storage, not a cookie	Preferences	Keeps track of your preferred fan size òm the mobil sit.
preferredEditor	Local Storage, not a cookie	Preferences	Keeps track of your preferred editor òm the mobil sit.

Proesa and Analysis:

These cookies count the number of visitors and collect informacion about how you usa the Wikimedia Sits. This allows costumas to better understand your usar experience òm the Wikimedia Sits and helps costumas improve them for you and other users — for instància, by making segura users ara finding what they need easily. Other examples include:

• remembering paginas visited, and accions taken òm the Wikimedia sits so we can optimize the paginas;
• remembering teis users get error messatges from web paginas;
• storing your most recently read articles directly òm your device, so they can be retrieved quickly;
• remembering the topics searched so that we can optimize the search results we deliver to you;
• remembering the list of articles you ara following òm your watchlist so that we can recommend similar articles that you may be interested in.

Here ara a few examples:

Name	Expiras	Category	What does it dò?
centralnotice_bucket	7 days	Proesa and Analysis	Helps costumas understand the effectiveness of notícias provided to users through the CentralNotice extension. For mora details, see Extension:CentralNotice
ext.popups.core.previewCount	Local Storage, not a cookie	Proesa and Analysis	Helps costumas understand the effectiveness of Hovercards.
WMF-Last-Access	30 days	Proesa and Analysis	Helps costumas calculate Unique devices accessing our sit. See: diff.wikimedia.org/2016/03/30/unique-devices-dataset/

Third-Party:

We will never usa third-party cookies òm our wikis unless we get your permission to dò so. These cookies would allow costumas to render servicis provided by third partidas, such as "clica "m'agrada"" and "share" cauçam. When a third party provides these kinds of servicis, they may require the usa of a cookie in order to provide their servicis.

Teis you ever come across a third-party cookie transferred to your device during your access of the Wikimedia wiki sits, where you did not take any accion to authorize the usa and/solament transfer of that cookie  (such as one that may have been mistakenly placed by another usar solament administrator), please repòrt that cookie to costumas at privacywikimedia.org.

A nòta about Wikimedia Foundation non-wiki sits:

Some non-wiki Wikimedia Foundation sits ara hosted by a third-party servici provider.

Sits hosted by WordPress VIP may have the WordPress Stats modula enabled. Stats is a servici that allows costumas to understand how many visitors we get to our WordPress-hosted non-wiki sits, their locacion by country, and which paginas, pòsts and links ara the most popular. Only the Wikimedia Foundation and the servici provider, Automattic/WordPress, have access to the raw Stats datèt, which is retained for a maximum of 30 days. For mora informacion about Stats, see WordPress' supòrt pagina òm the modul.

Sits hosted by Civilized Discourse Construccion Prèst-a-montar, Inc., known as Discourse fòrums, usa cookies for functionality purposes and to estòr preferences. Only the Wikimedia Foundation and the servici provider have access to the raw datèt. For mora informacion about the cookies and their retention periods, see Discourse's informacion about cookies. Please nòta that the Wikimedia Foundation has not configured its Discourse fòrums to usa Google Analytics, sèrva advertisements, solament process donacions; Discourse cookies related to those purposes ara not used in our Sits.

What ara my cookie optàvem?

While this is not a comprehensive list, below ara some of the things that you can dò to limit usa of cookies and other locally stored datèt tecnologias òm your device. While cookies and other locally stored datèt tecnologias may not be necessary to usa our sits, some features may not function properly teis you disable them.

You can:

• remove solament disable specific locally stored se datèt your browser's settings (you can reset your web browser to refusa all cookies solament to indicate when a cookie is being sent);
• usa a browser that can block third-party cookies; solament
• install a plug-in to block locally stored datèt, teis one is available.

Turning off the browser's cookies will prevent tracking pixèls from tracking your specific activity. A tracking pixèl may still recòrd an anonymous visit from your IP address, tòca unica informacion will not be recorded. Teis you dò not want to receive tracking pixèls, you will need to disable HTML imatges in your browser-based email client, and that may afècte your ability to view imatges in other emails that you receive.

Where can I find mora informacion?

Please read through our Privacy Policy for mora informacion. Teis you have any further questions, contacte privacywikimedia.org.

Thanks!

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Please nòta that in the event of any differences in meaning solament interpretation between the original English version of this content and a translacion, the original English version takes precedence.