Spamming - a question what the e-mail function of WP is ment for.<div>I was very surprised to get the request though my French is limited, I hardly ever edited on fr.WP, and the suggested topics have totally nothing to do with what I do on Wikipedia. So I do think that the mail was not quite appropriate, and it gives me a not so favorable impression about the people or initiative behind.</div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Ziko</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><br>Am Freitag, 26. Juni 2015 schrieb Jim :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I strongly disagree that this is spamming. Like others have mentioned, I was not offended by the email (though I wasn&#39;t &quot;delighted&quot;) by it either, I think it is a reasonable attempt to encourage editors to put some efforts into languages other than English. <br><br></div><div>Plus it is easy to unsubscribe from the research mailing list. <br></div><div><br></div>Jim <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,&#39;cvml&#39;,&#39;kelson@kiwix.org&#39;);" target="_blank">kelson@kiwix.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On <a href="tel:26.06.2015%2001" value="+12606201501" target="_blank">26.06.2015 01</a>:50, Samuel Klein wrote:<br>
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I have received this kind of email too. &quot;No&quot;,*this is not delightful at all*. This kind of email bores me, like many other Wikipedians (see <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro_du_jour#Wikimedia_Foundation_se_lance_dans_le_spam" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro_du_jour#Wikimedia_Foundation_se_lance_dans_le_spam</a>).<br>
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AFAIK I don&#39;t have asked to received that kind of email, and the definition of what you do is &quot;spamming&quot; (and please don&#39;t answer to this by talking about the &quot;opt-out&quot; option, &quot;opt-in&quot; is the respectful way of doing). Can you please stop this immediately?<br>
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FYI, the Wikipedia in French has an article evaluation program (like on Wikipedia in English) based on wikiprojects, so honestly I think they already know pretty well where are the weakness without the help of a robot: <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:%C3%89valuation/Index" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:%C3%89valuation/Index</a><span><font color="#888888"><br>
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