On 8 November 2015 at 14:06, Finn Årup Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > I sometimes search Twitter for the word "Wikidata" to get updates beyond > this mailing list. The past couple of times I have experienced that a > considerable part of the posts are from fake accounts issueing more or less > the same post "The file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia > biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata." I tried to report > and block these posts but find that it really doesn't help.
I analysed this phenomenon in a January 2013 blog post: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/twitter-spam-case-study/ Sadly, Twitter seem unwilling to deal with such abuse. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
