all other Wikipedians "Negroid" because of their
> appearance meeting a racist theory published in the 1930s.
>
> Or were you trying to say something else, other than defending
> "scientific racism" on this public list?
>
> Fae
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020
I'm not sure it is wise to try to refute differences between humans,
whether we call it race or something else, it is simply too easy to point
out the differences. We should rather promote that differences are a
GoodThing™
Humans do exhibit racial differences, but those differences should not be
It happen after a reboot where the browsers was reset.
No, I did not take a screenshot.
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:43 PM Samuel Klein wrote:
> >
> > This is a complaint about multiple banners on the same page.
>
>
>
> > I believe it would be better to put the add on the lower part of the
> >
One of the browsers are set up with forced session cookies and web storage,
and also to block third parties. It breaks several features, also central
login. I have reported it as an issue, but none has bothered to create a
fix.
I believe it would be better to put the add on the lower part of the
nks again,
> Nick
>
> [1] https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thank_You
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 7:56 AM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Often I surf Wikipedia without being logged in, and so I did right now. I
> > got the usual banners, but this time they popped up r
ing in?
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:56 AM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Often I surf Wikipedia without being logged in, and so I did right now. I
> > got the usual banners, but this time they popped up repeatedly in several
> > locations. This quickly gets extremely annoying, an
Often I surf Wikipedia without being logged in, and so I did right now. I
got the usual banners, but this time they popped up repeatedly in several
locations. This quickly gets extremely annoying, and I find it unwise.
Create one banner, and stick with that. Several banners are simply way over
the
It is said quite often that the Wikimedia-movement is apolitical. In
strongly believe the movement with its goal has never been, and never will
be apolitical. When we say that knowledge should be free and fully
available for everyone, then we make a political statement. It may not
align with you
Can everyone please calm down.
This is (nearly) only hyperbole.
Thank you.
/jeblad
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:51 AM Fæ wrote:
> OPEN LETTER
>
> Dear Katherine Maher,
>
> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all
/RfC_Should_the_Foundation_call_itself_Wikipedia
John Erling Blad
/jeblad
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:49 AM Samir Elsharbaty
wrote:
> Hi, the Brand team has been watching the RfC and has written a summary
> about it [1] that was shared both in the RfC [2] and the project page [3]
> in Meta. The team has integrated the feedback o
t; https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses
> > >
> > > >
> > > > r.
> > > >
> > > > _
> > > >
> > > > Ryan Merkley (he/him)
> > > >
of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
> >
> > rmerk...@wikimedia.org <mailto:rmerk...@wikimedia.org>
> > @ryanmerkley <https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley>
> > +1 416 802 0662
> >
> >> On Jan 18, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Jo
t;
>
> r.
>
> _
>
> Ryan Merkley (he/him)
> Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
> rmerk...@wikimedia.org <mailto:rmerk...@wikimedia.org>
> @ryanmerkley <https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley
in the millions and billions. Even a 1px
fine print would be troublesome!
What is the official stance on this? Is it a copyright infringement or
not, does the license(s) cover the case or not?
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… and people immediately went ballistic. Calm down and discuss the topic!
The news reporting seems to be that Snøhetta has been awarded a full
design project, while the page at Meta says it should act as some form
of facilitator. It could be interesting to know what is correct, as
these two
Note that "Dagens næringsliv" printed the story Thursday, so they must
have had information about it before WMF left the meeting with
Snøhetta. This is no longer a breaking story.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:04 AM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> This is out in several newspapers no
This is out in several newspapers now.
"Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1]
A quick Google Translate dump
The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes
Dagens Næringsliv.
- For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger
Seems like the site is throttled or even redirected to a taerpit.
Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia
> Foundation. While Katherine is inflight
Both en.wikipedia.org and tr.wikipedia.org are still blocked.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:44 PM Mike Godwin wrote:
>
> Great news! Even if the court's decision isn't implemented by the current
> Turkish government, it is important to have established that the block was
> a violation of
e in it, the
> better—not because it saves money, but because it makes the project more
> "owned" by the community.
>
>
> בתאריך שבת, 14 בדצמ׳ 2019, 09:12, מאת John Erling Blad :
>
> > I get a little scared when I read “probably, but not necessarily,
> > mostly
For those interested: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt-1/
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:47 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
>
> Take a look at our Norwegian competitor in the lexicon field.
> https://snl.no/kuns
I get a little scared when I read “probably, but not necessarily,
mostly by staff” because all kind of central standardization creates a
whole lot of arguing in the individual subprojects. If that
standardization means changing a whole lot of templates I'm afraid it
will create much more fighting
A skin does not have to change the content, most of the skin is chrome
and can be changed without touching the content at all.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:12 AM Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
wrote:
>
> Multiple responses:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:07 AM Juergen Fenn wrote:
>
> > Am 12.12.19 um
e from the
> content to absolutely overwhelm the whole monitor on a first view. That
> robot image should be about a third of its size.
>
> Todd
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:22 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Try holding your cellphone vertically.
> >
> > to
tely huge photo of a robot looking at me. I have to scroll down past
> that to get to the actual meat, the text content. *That* looks like 1996.
>
> I'll take the way we have it over that, thanks very much.
>
> Todd
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:48 PM John Erling Blad wrot
at 2:01 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> I wrote 1996 in the subject field because that was the year I made a
> wikisite with tabbed interface, and experimented with a paper-like
> design in Xt. More or less what designers today would call a material
> design. The present design i
it. The design proposal was deemed to radical and
to simple for Wikipedia. He got several awards for the design.
No, I'm not a designer, but I do like good design.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:34 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> Thank you, but discussing how your site or any other specifi
Thank you, but discussing how your site or any other specific site
looked like in some year is an distraction.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:30 PM Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> Hi John!
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:47:21 +0100
> John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Could we please update t
xperience (and the beta mode
> there is super cool, but still breaks some templates).
>
> Strainu
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:48 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
> >
> > > Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
> > >
Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
Take a look at our Norwegian competitor in the lexicon field.
https://snl.no/kunstig_intelligens
John Erling Blad
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Seems like something happen early Friday morning.[1]
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On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 2:43 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
> You are right. “Firefox and Chrome disable pin validation for pinned hosts
> whose validated certificate chain terminates at
n default.
>
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, 12:58 John Erling Blad, wrote:
>
> > The Kazakhstan MITM could be stopped by HTTP Public Key Pinning [1], but
> > Chrome seems to have dropped support for HPKP[2]? Dropping HPKP made the
> > MITM attack possible, by forcing the users to install
The Kazakhstan MITM could be stopped by HTTP Public Key Pinning [1], but
Chrome seems to have dropped support for HPKP[2]? Dropping HPKP made the
MITM attack possible, by forcing the users to install the root certificate,
as many of the sites listed has been on the HPKP list. With HPKP in place
cannot be named, but oddly was not
> worth a global ban but only the equivalent of a 12 month block on
> Wikipedia while they are free to do whatever they feel like on other
> Wikimedia projects.
>
> Fae
> --
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
&g
When you bad mouth other users there should be, and will be, consequences.
An admin got desysoped and banned after repeated warnings? So what? The
only ting to be learned is that some people believe they can do whatever
they want and it has no consequences, and other people goes ballistic when
> > One reason; reach.
> >
>
> In academia reach -per se- is not a big deal, while impact is.
Reach leads to impact. You can't get impact without reach, but reach
in non-scientific communities does not necessarily turn into reach in
scientific communities.
> At nowiki we vere approached some
How often do you expect a scientific article to be translated?
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:46 PM James Heilman wrote:
>
> Wiki Journals use CC BY SA. We do not support or want to us ND as that
> would prevent translation into other languages. That is why I disagree with
> Plan S's move to allow ND.
Do editing in a non-indexed draft space and then move the articles
into an indexed mainspace after passing peer review.
I guess a "WikiJournal" should be CC-ND by default. Authors should be
able to relax the license. If others are allowed to edit then the
license should be forced to CC-by-SA.
One reason; reach. At nowiki we vere approached some years ago by a
university about publishing cutting edge research in fish farming. We
could not publish their work because some claimed it to be "original
research". Sure it was, and it was darn good original research too. I
don't think that was
of_Science/RIG-I_like_receptors>
> ).
>
> Thomas
>
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 14:18, John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > How do you handle lock down of articles? That is only listed authors should
> > write a given article, so you can't allow random user edit access as it
How do you handle lock down of articles? That is only listed authors should
write a given article, so you can't allow random user edit access as it is
today.
Jeblad
man. 3. jun. 2019, 04.16 skrev Thomas Shafee :
> Yes, we put together a little checklist back in round one (*link*
> <
>
; and as good
> practice it should always be easy for the reader to navigate to the
> unenhanced original.
>
> Fae
> --
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>
> On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 02:23, John Erling Blad wrote:
> >
> > A quite common problem
A quite common problem at all Wikimedia sites; we have a photo but the
quality is poor. An example is the old photo from the cabins at
Mørkedalen where a group of fighters hid out during the invasion of
Norway.[1]
I've been using some manual tools to restore images, but it is very
slow and the
; which is something you
typically drive on a road, but it can also be part of a train, or a
toy.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplet_loss
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 2:55 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
Microsoft has unveiled an idea about a grammar and style tool for
Word. [1] I proposed something similar for detecting problematic
grammatical constructs in the content translation tools.[2] It is a
couple of years ago now, and I closed the task.
[1]
To be an organization so devoted to knowledge, Wikimedia as such (the
projects communities included) knows very little about epistemology. A
collection of mere facts, even referenced, is nothing more than
information.
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>
> Regards,
> Yann
> Jai Jagat 2020 Grand March Coordinator
> https://www.jaijagat2020.org/
> +91-74 34 93 33 58 (also WhatsApp)
>
>
>
> Le mar. 14 mai 2019 à 10:00, John Erling Blad a écrit :
>
> > Again; what is different
Again; what is different between me as a photographer taking pictures for a
newspaper and me as a photograper taking pictures for Commons? Is it the
name written om the lens? The shoes I'm wearing?
There are no difference, this is a fallacy.
John Erling Blad
/jeblad
tir. 14. mai 2019, 05.50
Some years ago I did a quite simplified analysis of the number of
active contributors, and normalized the number against the number of
people wit internet connections for the respective language groups.
The relative number was pretty similar for all languages from similar
cultural groups. I
Trying to explain European copyright to Americans can be
quite hard…
;)
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 6:07 AM Yann Forget wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> Of course. More admins would lesser the work charge, and it would be great.
> We specially appreciate admins with multi-language capabilities, as it is a
This is wrong: "The upload system allow you to upload something if you
are the author. Period."
The system as it is now will allow anyone to upload a file given (s)he
has the necessary rights. That does not imply the uploader being the
author of the material.
Note that verifying whether the
I can imagine a bot comparing photos found by Google (ie. comparing
hashes) but not a system extracting some kind of unique feature that
says an image is a copyright violation. So how do you imagine ORES
being used for copyright violations? I can't see how a copyright
violation would have any kind
I have proposed use of local sensitive hashing algorithms for at least
three different purposes in the past. All being turned down. Probably
it is due to LSHs being difficult to understand, and not to forget it
is a fairly bit of fighting over what is and whats not a "real" LSH.
In the past there
Anyone noticed the terse tech notice in november?
"When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic"
citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able
to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a
book in this tab. This will search the
We should be using a grid for what people are reading about, instead
of using countries. That will give a better representation of large
countries vs small countries. It will also better reflect local ethnic
groups.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 1:53 PM Amir E. Aharoni
wrote:
>
> בתאריך יום א׳, 10
> is most likely not considered to be ok even if does not explicitly
> contradict to any policies.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 5:07 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > I was thinking about actually bounties, like in bug bounties from
> > larger
ew. And rather than driving people away, they tend to draw them
> in—Cunningham's law[2] never fails.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ENGVAR
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 6:55 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
&g
.
The Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has over a half a million articles.
About 10 % lack sources. Nearly all of them has spelling errors. It is
nothing unusual about this.
Could we use bounties to get some momentum?
John Erling Blad
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the highly
specialized rdf2vec algorithm (hello Copenhagen) and verifying the stateful
language model (hello Helsinki and Tromsø).
I wonder if the only real problems are what do the community want, and what
is the acceptable error limit.
John Erling Bl
nk/>, State Statistical Office of
the Republic of Macedonia
<http://www.stat.gov.mk/OtvoreniPodatociApi_en.aspx>, Basque Institute of
Statistics <http://en.eustat.eus/bancopx/english/indice.html>
Note also the grant proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Impor
Congratulations from Norway!
*NOTICE: This message is not confidential or legally privileged in any way!
;)
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 6:14 PM Eileen Hershenov
wrote:
> Congratulations
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 1:36 AM Thierry Coudray wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > La grande nouvelle du jour
I wonder if some of the problem is that we have made a mash-up of policies
and guidelines on the same pages, thereby making it very hard for newcomers
to figure out what they must know and all the stuff that is simply nice to
know. Take a look at Verifiability at enwiki. [1] How much of this is
This is slightly more complex. Some projects have a very large and steady
decline, especially in new contributors,[1] while some projects have an
increase, especially in the established users group.[2] Why it is so is not
clear at all, but some editors favor an idea that other sites like Facebook
We do need better tools to curate the existing articles, but that is not a
blocker for new ways to create and edit articles.
For example, what if we could simply select a sentence, create a query on
some search engine, and then have an ai-bot crawl the result to see if one
of the hits can be used
Using a term from another language while creating an article and then later
localizing that term isn't that difficult, and should not be described as
impossible. What it does although identifies a problem with our current
production system; it is easy to move an article, but it is not easy to
make
person within the local community, to accept the translation as valid and
good enough. After it is ticked off as "done" further payment of that
specific article will stop.
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:27 AM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You guys are making
You guys are making the whole idea way to complex. There should be no
editorial board. That goes against the whole wiki-way of doing things.
There should be no additional foundation, that makes the whole idea
unmanageable. It will also cost way more than the gain.
Make thing DarnSimple™! A single
There are something similar to paid translations in what you may call
prioritized articles. That is articles that are so important for a language
that they should be written, no matter whether they exist in a larger
language.
For example in the Northern Sami Wikipedia there should be an article
That is a very good example!
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Harald Haugland wrote:
> This thread brought me to think of an article I wrote on Norwegian
> Wikipedia about a year ago. It was about the Allex Project (African
> Languages Lexical Project), a project where
text of a sister Wikipedia.
>
> We can do a better job by providing the sum of all knowledge that is
> available to us.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On 25 February 2018 at 15:16, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, but this does not make sense. Th
ranslation. If we open up for creative brainstorming
> > (among the ones having the need) I think very many other ways can turn
> up.
> > Myself I am deeply impressed what you can create using Wikidata as a base
> > source of info, and being from a version of type 3 I
> practical reasons, English is the most common translation source [1], but
> translating from French, Russian, Chinese, or other languages, is awesome
> for diversity—not just politically, but philosophically as well.)
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CXStats
>
&
y for free CC-4 OCW degrees)
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:49 PM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It is a long time since everyone on these projects were solely
> volunteers.
> > :)
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Tod
Not sure what you mean by common search terms, but if it is about direct
translation of search terms to get good SEO ranking it is outside what I'm
talking about. That area will vanish completely in a coupe of years.
I've replied about medical articles previously, and why this isn't an area
where
with different
> languages. For languages mainly spoken as first language the "sharing
> knowledge" aspect is predominant, while the second should take precedence
> in languages whose speakers are native speakers of a "bigger" language.
>
> Vito
>
>
language totally detached from reality: there's no "encaustic painting" in
> Sicilian, still a Sicilian article about Leonardo will invent one.
>
> As a general principle we should always collect, rather than create,
> knowledge.
>
> Vito
>
> 2018-02-24 16:30 GMT+
tached from reality: there's no "encaustic painting"
> in
> > Sicilian, still a Sicilian article about Leonardo will invent one.
> >
> > As a general principle we should always collect, rather than create,
> > knowledge.
> >
> > Vito
> >
>
language spoken by
>> 40 million people in Eastern India. The amazing thing is that for many of
>> these topics this is the first and only information online about it.
>> Google
>> translate does not even claim to work in this language. Our partnerships
>> with WMTW and
> I think the request for such projects should come from the concerned
> language projects, same for the list of articles. If not, in my simple
> opinion, it is a form of coloniasm again.
>
> Jean-Philippe Béland
> Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018
of articles. If not, in my simple
> > opinion, it is a form of coloniasm again.
> >
> > Jean-Philippe Béland
> > Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:40 AM John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> &g
plicitly requested not to be involved /
> have translations from TWB.
>
> James
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 7:59 AM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You can turn it around; give added credits for translations from small
> > language projects a
:
> I think the request for such projects should come from the concerned
> language projects, same for the list of articles. If not, in my simple
> opinion, it is a form of coloniasm again.
>
> Jean-Philippe Béland
> Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 24,
,
as the number of editors that can handle those will be pretty small.
In particular: Do not believe you can turn a teanslator into a new editor!
You can although turn an existing editor into a translator.
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:34 PM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) You m
nslate into Chinese.
> There the students translate and than their translations are reviewed by
> their profs before being posted. They translate in groups using hackpad to
> make it more social.
>
> I am currently working to re invigorate the project :-)
> James
>
> O
anguages
> translation project. I could use some help drafting guidelines for how to
> make priorities for what to translate given limited resources.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 7:51 AM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This discussion is going to b
necessity if the
purpose is to create local communities in the different languages. Think
globally, act locally!
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:51 PM, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This discussion is going to be fun! =D
>
> A little more than seventy Wikipedia-projects h
This discussion is going to be fun! =D
A little more than seventy Wikipedia-projects has more than 65k articles,
the remaining two hundred or so are pretty small.
What if a base set of articles were opened for paid translators? There are
several lists of such base sets. We have both the thousand
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bybrunnen#Wikimania_2019
On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:37 PM, Sami Mlouhi wrote:
> Congratulations Wikimedia Sweden !
>
>
> 2018-02-08 20:07 GMT+01:00 Tanweer Morshed :
>
> > Congratulations Wikimedia Sverige!
inside their
> provider data (because put in the end of a small group of people is
> "enough") or that the disaggregated information of CU activity is not
> public for the majority of platforms... but someone cares so much if they
> receive a welcoming message by bot when the
I can't see that T42006 is relevant in this case. It is about abusive use
of a bot, not about creation of the central account in itself.
The existence of a central account leads to creation of the local account.
This is probably acceptable. Then this may lead to the abusiv behavior, ie
exposing
If it has been discussed before, then it would be nice if someone can
provide a pointer to that discussion.
Den ons. 24. jan. 2018, 11.29 skrev Joseph Seddon :
> This conversation started in the middle of the Christmas break following
> which I suspect many staff took
having a little trouble with understanding your email from January
> 15th. Could you perhaps state your question or point in a different way?
>
> Pine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro/Bright_Places>
>
> On M
Commons mailing lists regarding this idea. You might also
> make a suggestion in IdeaLab
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab>.
>
> Pine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro/Bright_Places>
>
is like a fingerprint, and those fingerprints can
be compared to other images with known fingerprints, or against a
generalized fingerprint for a category.
John Erling Blad
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uld at least some parts be
> >> reused
> >> across languages in a robust and properly localizable manner?
> >> * Is the talk page really a good place to do this?
> >> * How useful is it for people for people who come from another language
> >> and
> >&
As I recall, communication with newcomers by templates was found to be a
negative factor.
Jeblad
Den lør. 30. des. 2017, 16.58 skrev Jonathan Cardy <
werespielchequ...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Amir,
>
> It isn't too late to ask about the utility of welcome messages, but be
> aware that there are
ail.com>:
>
> > Have you asked the user how the finding the users?
> > Have you considered other steps than just jumping to mailing list?
> > Where are the complaints from the other users to show this is a long
> > running issue?
> >
> > On 29 December 20
long
> running issue?
>
> On 29 December 2017 at 19:20, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> 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 p
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
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