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 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 new > content!).

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 >> th

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 com

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 wrote: > + Michelle Paulson > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Pine W > wrote: > >> This issue is also being discussed on the Research mailing list. >> >> I have three questions: >> >> 1. Was this outreach met

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

2015-06-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 27 June 2015 at 17:28, Peter Southwood 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 answers. -- Andy Mabbett @pig

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

2015-06-27 Thread Peter Southwood
: [Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from "wikimedia research" 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 articl

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 add

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 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. >> >>

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 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 improving artic

[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 account