I can estimate the number of welcomes I received to roughly 300, most of these languages I cannot even copypaste from. While these messages are useless for sure I don't see any reason to be bothered of them.
Vito 2017-12-29 10:25 GMT+01:00 K. Peachey <p858sn...@gmail.com>: > Have you asked the user how the finding the users? > Have you considered other steps than just jumping to mailing list? > Where are the complaints from the other users to show this is a long > running issue? > > On 29 December 2017 at 19:20, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Users on other projects are complaining about the welcome messages at > > arwiki. A bot at that project are welcoming people that has no activity > at > > that project at all. The bot operator claims the activity is valid, but I > > can't see that this is a well-behaving bot at all.[1] > > > > I suspect the bot is welcoming every user it can find, but using user > > accounts from central login and not users that has local contributions at > > arwiki. > > > > Can someone shut down the bot until the user fix the spam problem. > > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Meno25#Welcome_messages > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
