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
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Hi Amir,
It isn't too late to ask about the utility of welcome messages, but be aware that there are reasons for their evolution over the last decade. Your email almost implied that this has been an unreviewed area for the last decade.
There was some research a few years ago that concluded that welcomed editors were more likely to stay, despite many welcomes being of the "welcome your article has been tagged for deletion" variety. If someone fancies digging further it would be good to compare welcomed and unwelcomed editors among the 75% of newbies who edit existing articles and also among the 25% or whatever is left of that who come here to create new articles.
I think that now would be a good time to develop tailored welcomes for mobile and V/E newbies. I'm conscious that the Welcome I usually use assumes that newbies who do good edits are using the classic editor and contributing with something bigger than a tablet. So sometimes I leave newbies unwelcomed rather than give them a potentially confusing welcome.
As for getting a welcome message from a wiki where I have visited but not edited, I consider that a privacy violation. We normally claim not to log anything about our readers, but if a logged in Wikimedian visits arwiki a log is created artificially by issuing them a welcome. It isn't a Privacy violation that especially irks me personally, but if we allow it we should change the global privacy statements accordingly.
Regards
Jonathan
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> It's a good opportunity to step back and discuss a little something.
>
> The existence of pretty much every bot is a reason to think of a missing
> feature in the site's software. The same goes for templates and gadgets.
>
> Why do many wikis have custom welcome templates and bots that send them?
> The intuitive answer is "to send a personal message to a new user", but if
> it's done by a bot, it's already not personal. What does the bot actually
> automate? The placement of a template? But what is the actual purpose of
> the template?
>
> Is it to say "hello and welcome"? The notifications feature already does it
> nicely.
>
> To send people a list of useful links? I heard many times that new users
> actually do find them useful, and it's a good thing. But it's nevertheless
> an anecdotal claim, and smarter questions should be asked:
> * How many people actually read these messages?
> * Are all the links useful? Do people actually click them?
> * Could some be removed? Could some be added?
> * Why is it different in every project? Could at least some parts be reused
> across languages in a robust and properly localizable manner?
> * Is the talk page really a good place to do this?
> * How useful is it for people for people who come from another language and
> have an account auto-created?
>
> And so on.
>
> Welcome templates have been a part of our sites for well over a decade, but
> it's never too late to ask fundamental question about what purpose do they
> serve, and how could this purpose be served better.
>
> Happy New Year :)
>
> בתאריך 29 בדצמ׳ 2017 11:21, "John E
Our World in Data has created 100s of heat maps with scroll bars for
adjusting the year. The maps as well as the underlying data is under an
open license.
Example include these https://ourworldindata.org/obesity/
When one puts their cursor over the country in question they get the
underlying data and the country is highlighted. What would be required for
use to support this sort of technology within Wikipedia?
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Hey All
I have no idea what to do. I have been asking around. Hard spaces are being
adding to English Wikipedia by the 100s to 1000s. I have no idea why and I
have no idea how to fix it.
I have brought this up here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing#Hard_spaces
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Stop_adding_
Folks appear to be saying that the problem is someone elses problem. It
appears to be mainly coming from education initiatives / those who use
visual editor and thus I imaging copying and pasting content between
different parts of Wikipedia.
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