Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-28 Thread Quim Gil
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote: It's good to see an email appeal sent to editors to translate articles, although a direct email appeal to generally add information to the relevant Wikipedia might be better (we don't just want translators, we also want

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-28 Thread Michael Peel
So as part of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage , it appears that unsolicited emails have been sent out encouraging people to translated articles into needed languages. I am all for improving article coverage, etc, but I'm concerned about the use of user

[Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread Brian Wolff
So as part of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage , it appears that unsolicited emails have been sent out encouraging people to translated articles into needed languages. I am all for improving article coverage, etc, but I'm concerned about the use of user

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread Filip Maljković
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: So as part of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage , it appears that unsolicited emails have been sent out encouraging people to translated articles into needed languages. I am all for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread MZMcBride
Filip Maljković wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Brian Wolff bawo...@gmail.com wrote: So as part of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage , it appears that unsolicited emails have been sent out encouraging people to translated articles into needed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread Pine W
This issue is also being discussed on the Research mailing list. I have three questions: 1. Was this outreach method approved by RCom? 2. Email addresses are nonpublic information on-wiki unless they are proactively and publicly disclosed by users. Does the bulk collection of nonpublic email

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 June 2015 at 17:28, Peter Southwood peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote: So that’s what that e-mail was about. I got an e-mail in French, a language which I don’t read, write, or speak. I assumed a technical or human error. Pine's questions are certainly deserving of prompt and frank

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread Michelle Paulson
Hi All, Please see in-line below. -Michelle On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Leila Zia le...@wikimedia.org wrote: + Michelle Paulson On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wiki.p...@gmail.com'); wrote: This issue is also being discussed on the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread Aaron Halfaker
RCom, as far as I know has not been active in the past year or more (last meeting was on Dec. 22, 2011). *RCom is not dead. It changed into something less formal and less hierarchical. You can still email me and Dario to get support for your research plans. We'd still reconvene the