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 >> -- >> Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more >> * Web: http://www.kiwix.org >> * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline >> * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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