I'm surprised that this whole thing is even an issue at this late date. Considering the importance to the projects of recruiting and retaining contrbutors, how is it possible to be in a position where the various projects do not have a comprehensive understanding of, and well-researched evidence-based policies for, welcoming new contributors, and efficient and effective tools in place to implement those policies? Indeed, why were these things not all sorted out at least a decade ago?
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 9:20 AM, 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>
