[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 31 December 2017)

[Pine W]

Hi all,

This week we ended 2017 and started 2018.

I liked the format and diversity of the December 2017 WMF metrics meeting (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFA53YlM9Q4). For those who didn't watch
that meeting or would like a reminder, here is a summary of the the
lightning talks:

* Wiki Loves Butterfly
* *Día de las Escritoras*
* Sesame Street and Wikipedia
* Wiki Loves Monuments
* Wikipedia in Space
* Promoting Wikipedia in Nigeria

Also, I generally like the appearance and speed of the new version of
Wikistats, which is currently an alpha release:
https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects

What's making you happy this week?

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki

[Peter Southwood]

Possibly because they have been busy with other things?
Cheers,
Peter

-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
Renée Bagslint
Sent: 01 January 2018 00:10
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki

I'm surprised that this whole thing is even an issue at this late date.
Considering the importance to the projects of recruiting and retaining 
contrbutors, how is it possible to be in a position where the various projects 
do not have a comprehensive understanding of, and well-researched 
evidence-based policies for, welcoming new contributors, and efficient and 
effective tools in place to implement those policies?  Indeed, why were these 
things not all sorted out at least a decade ago?

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 9:20 AM, John Erling Blad  wrote:

> Users on other projects are complaining about the welcome messages at 
> arwiki. A bot at that project are welcoming people that has no 
> activity at that project at all. The bot operator claims the activity 
> is valid, but I can't see that this is a well-behaving bot at all.[1]
>
> I suspect the bot is welcoming every user it can find, but using user 
> accounts from central login and not users that has local contributions 
> at arwiki.
>
> Can someone shut down the bot until the user fix the spam problem.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Meno25#Welcome_messages
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