Possibly because they have been busy with other things?
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Renée
Bagslint
Sent: 01 January 2018 00:10
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki
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 <jeblad(a)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
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