I still wonder what made a bot think I speak French? Surely, a few minor
edits on fr.wp can't be the trigger?
(well, I had two years at school, but I barely remember enough to identify
the language...)

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:42 AM Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Interesting viewpoint, Emmanuel! I am always fascinated to know what
> others think I might be interested in, even if the "other" is just a bot.
> Like Sam I was delighted, and I might even be prompted to do a translation
> (though not one of the ones they suggested, but an article which I made
> myself and is in the same general area). I disagree by the way, that each
> Wikipedia has to decide on their own what is "encyclopedia worthy" in that
> language. I think the projects need to start trusting each other more and
> be open to *aggressive* translation efforts as a way to educate new
> (multi-lingual) editors, and also to promote a neutral point of view. Let's
> wikibomb everybody aggressively with translation suggestions!
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 26.06.2015 01:50, Samuel Klein wrote:
>>
>>> This is such a delightful experience.
>>>
>>
>> I have received this kind of email too. "No",*this is not delightful at
>> all*. This kind of email bores me, like many other Wikipedians (see
>> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro_du_jour#Wikimedia_Foundation_se_lance_dans_le_spam
>> ).
>>
>> AFAIK I don't have asked to received that kind of email, and the
>> definition of what you do is "spamming" (and please don't answer to this by
>> talking about the "opt-out" option, "opt-in" is the respectful way of
>> doing). Can you please stop this immediately?
>>
>> FYI, the Wikipedia in French has an article evaluation program (like on
>> Wikipedia in English) based on wikiprojects, so honestly I think they
>> already know pretty well where are the weakness without the help of a
>> robot: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:%C3%89valuation/Index
>>
>> Emmanuel
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