It may or may not be a coincidence, but today I heard a similar complaint
from somebody who occasionally edits in Hebrew, and was freaked out by a
welcome message that was sent after he simply read a page in the French
Wikipedia.
As Jonathan says, even if it is a privacy issue, it's not really a
What Quiddity said.
If we're talking about impact on (good faith) new editors, yes, it's
complicated but the bulk of the evidence points to certain kinds of
welcomes[1][2] being effective at driving retention (every little bit
helps), and others having no effect at all, and maybe a few approaches
We have our first heat map of the world based on CC BY SA 4.0 data live
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Update
Attribution is provided in the caption. Still a few political hurdles that
need to solved. We have an ongoing RfC about whether we should allow CC BY
SA
