On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> 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 article coverage, etc, but I'm concerned about > the use of user account emails to send unsolicited mail that the user > has not opted into. I think use of user email addresses for purposes > other than the user has agreed to, is not ok. > I'm not really fazed by the fact that emails were unsolicited, but by the fact that I got it in French. I don't know whether that was a glitch or a conscious decision, but my knowledge of French is somewhere around fr-0.1, and it made no sense to me why I got it in a language other than English. :) Cheers, Filip Maljković _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
