[Wikimedia-l] Regarding our new TOS

[Victor Vasiliev]

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/putting-an-end-to-the-biggest-lie-on-the-internet/

Project lead Hugo Roy tells me that he considers Wikipedia to be an
exemplary service, though it hasn’t been rated by TOS;DR. He says both
Wikipedia’s short, clear summary of its TOS and its practice of
soliciting feedback from users before a change in terms should be
widely adopted as best practices for the web.

One of the moments which make me shine happy for being the part of
Wikimedia community. I were not involved in the process myself, but
want to thank everyone who were.

—Victor.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Watchlist email notifications enabled on all wikis

[Victor Vasiliev]

Please, do not enable this feature by default. A lot of people do not
like  10 emails/day in their mailbox, and I have such amount of
watchlisted edits even in smaller projects like Meta.

—vvv

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
 A few hours ago, a year after the discussion on this list about editor
 retention and communication,[1] email notification[2] of edits to
 watchlisted pages has been enabled on all Wikimedia projects — at last!
 Until yesterday, only 16 lucky content projects, including Commons (plus a
 bunch of small backstage wikis), benefited from this feature.
 There are still a few steps left, to monitor performance impact.[3]

 The only inconvenience is that both new and old users still have to manually
 enable the feature on their preferences, while it would make more sense to
 make it opt-out, as for user talk: users want to disable it only on the very
 few wikis they monitor very closely, when/if the watchlist gets crowded and
 would generate too much spam. Some thought is needed to address this pat of
 the problem because of course we don't want to suddenly send thousands of
 emails to the super-users with (tens of?) thousands of pages in their
 watchlist before they opt-out.

 Nemo

 [1]
 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-April/thread.html#65294
 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Watching_pages#E-mail_notification
 [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28026#c53

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