There are many million users registered in central auth. Most have not
edited anywhere, and never even visited
. welcoming these
is actually harmful in a demonstrable way: readers will be notified of this
useless welcome by email, or the notification tool. If this were
multiplied across our
On 29 Dec 2017 10:20, "Vi to" <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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 <p858snake(a)gmail.com>om>:
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 <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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