Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions
On 2 December 2014 at 16:25, lkcl . wrote: > could someone please urgently investigate this individual. > > a) who is this person > b) what authority do they have > c) what links do they have to the Wikipedia Foundation > > > My guess is it is someone impersonating user:Russavia (banned user on English Wikipedia so a bit outside our jurisdiction anyway) to try and cause trouble. Certainly that isn't the email address they generally use. Details of the actual gendergap mailing list can be found at: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap The addresses of the admins again do not match those shown in the exchange -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions
Sounds like a group intended for people with an axe to grind regarding Wikipedia. I would pay it no mind. You also might consider setting your Google Groups profile to not allow admins to add you to groups without your say so. Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipo...@gmail.com "יְהִי אוֹר" On Dec 2, 2014 11:26 AM, "lkcl ." wrote: > could someone please urgently investigate this individual. > > a) who is this person > b) what authority do they have > c) what links do they have to the Wikipedia Foundation > > and what the heck is going on: what is this about my email address > being "added as a banned user"? i am a long-standing contributor to > wikipedia including the strategic discussions from 2011. > > l. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Russia Aviation > Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:24 PM > Subject: Re: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions > To: luke.leigh...@gmail.com > > > Your email ID was added as a banned user of Wikipedia who was unjustly > banned by fascist organisers. > > On 12/2/14, luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote: > > i have reported your group for net abuse due to an unsolicited > subscription. > > you DO NOT have the right to subscribe people without their explicit > > authorisation to arbitrary random mailing lists or groups. wherever you > got > > my email address from you will inform me IMMEDIATELY. > > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Russavia (Google Groups) > Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM > Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap > To: luke.leigh...@gmail.com > > > > Gendergap International : Addressing gender equity and exploring ways > to increase the participation of women within international Wikimedia > projects. > > > About this group: > > Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the > participation of women within Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage > you to engage with others in this effort. > > > The owner of the group has set your subscription type as "Email", > meaning that you'll receive a copy of every message posted to the > group as they are posted. > > Visit This Group > > Start your own group, unsubscribe from this group, or stop invitations > like this. or report spam. > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
[WikiEN-l] Fwd: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions
could someone please urgently investigate this individual. a) who is this person b) what authority do they have c) what links do they have to the Wikipedia Foundation and what the heck is going on: what is this about my email address being "added as a banned user"? i am a long-standing contributor to wikipedia including the strategic discussions from 2011. l. -- Forwarded message -- From: Russia Aviation Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:24 PM Subject: Re: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions To: luke.leigh...@gmail.com Your email ID was added as a banned user of Wikipedia who was unjustly banned by fascist organisers. On 12/2/14, luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote: > i have reported your group for net abuse due to an unsolicited subscription. > you DO NOT have the right to subscribe people without their explicit > authorisation to arbitrary random mailing lists or groups. wherever you got > my email address from you will inform me IMMEDIATELY. > -- Forwarded message -- From: Russavia (Google Groups) Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap To: luke.leigh...@gmail.com Gendergap International : Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within international Wikimedia projects. About this group: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage you to engage with others in this effort. The owner of the group has set your subscription type as "Email", meaning that you'll receive a copy of every message posted to the group as they are posted. Visit This Group Start your own group, unsubscribe from this group, or stop invitations like this. or report spam. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list
What is there to say? On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > If the moderators of this mailing list are around, would they or > anyone else subscribed to the list be able to throw up some statistics > about how much the traffic has declined over the past few years? I'm > asking because looking at the archives, I think that last month > (November 2014) was the first month since the mailing list started in > September 2001 that there were no posts to the this mailing list (the > wiki-en-l mailing list for discussion of matters related to the > English Wikipedia). > > Admittedly, the list has been moribund for a long time, but I'm not > sure exactly when the tipping point was reached (most meta-discussion > seems to take place either on-wiki, at meta, or on the Wikimedia-l > mailing list). What is the general view in the Wikimedia universe on > maintaining low-traffic lists like this? It might be time to discuss > what future this mailing list has. > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > Actually, looking at the list of moderators, how many of them are still > around? > > Carcharoth > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list
On 2 December 2014 at 10:12, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I kinda like the separation between cross-project and cross-language issues > on Wikimedia-L and the discussion about English Wikipedia, but if nobody is > interested in the existence of this list, I won't be very sad if it shut > down. Despite the lengthy moderator list, I'm about it for actually bothering. Not that there's much to do. In the world of mailing lists, en:wp discussion tends to happen on wikimedia-l, if at all. > I'd shut down Wikipedia-L first, however - that one is really dead, except > occasional people who pop in by mistake every few months. +1 - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list
I kinda like the separation between cross-project and cross-language issues on Wikimedia-L and the discussion about English Wikipedia, but if nobody is interested in the existence of this list, I won't be very sad if it shut down. I'd shut down Wikipedia-L first, however - that one is really dead, except occasional people who pop in by mistake every few months. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-12-02 2:26 GMT+02:00 Carcharoth : > If the moderators of this mailing list are around, would they or > anyone else subscribed to the list be able to throw up some statistics > about how much the traffic has declined over the past few years? I'm > asking because looking at the archives, I think that last month > (November 2014) was the first month since the mailing list started in > September 2001 that there were no posts to the this mailing list (the > wiki-en-l mailing list for discussion of matters related to the > English Wikipedia). > > Admittedly, the list has been moribund for a long time, but I'm not > sure exactly when the tipping point was reached (most meta-discussion > seems to take place either on-wiki, at meta, or on the Wikimedia-l > mailing list). What is the general view in the Wikimedia universe on > maintaining low-traffic lists like this? It might be time to discuss > what future this mailing list has. > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > Actually, looking at the list of moderators, how many of them are still > around? > > Carcharoth > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list
The moderators of Wikimedia-l would need to agree to that. En-specific stuff would be off-topic there. Could someone cross-post this there if that is allowed? Also best to wait for one of the moderators here to weigh in. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, FRED BAUDER wrote: > How about disabling new posts, or forwarding new posts to Wikimedia-l, making a referral to Wikimedia-l in the info, and leaving the archives open. > > Fred Bauder > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 00:26:31 + > Carcharoth wrote: >> >> If the moderators of this mailing list are around, would they or >> anyone else subscribed to the list be able to throw up some statistics >> about how much the traffic has declined over the past few years? I'm >> asking because looking at the archives, I think that last month >> (November 2014) was the first month since the mailing list started in >> September 2001 that there were no posts to the this mailing list (the >> wiki-en-l mailing list for discussion of matters related to the >> English Wikipedia). >> >> Admittedly, the list has been moribund for a long time, but I'm not >> sure exactly when the tipping point was reached (most meta-discussion >> seems to take place either on-wiki, at meta, or on the Wikimedia-l >> mailing list). What is the general view in the Wikimedia universe on >> maintaining low-traffic lists like this? It might be time to discuss >> what future this mailing list has. >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> >> Actually, looking at the list of moderators, how many of them are still around? >> >> Carcharoth >> >> ___ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l