https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19161
--- Comment #25 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2011-03-22 08:42:05 UTC --- Yes, but when just visiting a wiki page, it creates immediately an account, and I have received several times emails notifying me that a "Hello, new user" was posted immediately by some bots running on this wiki, noting the account creation. This should have never happened, and I should have never been contacted directly without first creating my own page, and verifying the user settings (after changing the user language preference, because the default language of the visited wiki was unreadable for me). I had to manually unsubscribe all these notificitions (and from some wikis, that I had just visited for exampel to check a link, those notifications were really excessive, and completley unreadable for me). In other words, the account creation was effectively auditable after a mere visit *reading* only some page (in fact just deciphering it partly, possibly with the help of an online translator). I have more than 250 wikis registered on my wikis, I cannot manage them all, and in fact I still don't know if some options in one of them does not match my effective preferences (each time I check some of them, they are too much permissive, more permissive than even my home wiki : this should have never happened, because I have NEVER opted in for these options on all these wikis). This has the same impact as spams: bulk undesired and unsollicitated contents posted to my mail box. And this severely degrades the image of Wikimedia sites (and can be a part of the problem occuring now, with people leaving Wikimedia or stopping collborating on it). Be careful, please provide the necessary tools to allow users audit their existing wikis to whcih they were subscribed without notice. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
