There are a lot of SUL issues that are waiting to be addressed. One for example is the
definition of what is not "appropriate" as a name. Another one is a centralized
interface for preferences, a third one is a centralized management of key user
information, a forth one is the possibility to disactivate crosswiki ping services so you
can manage them only when you want to... and so on... one reasonable thing you can ask is
that the message is not inserted in the talk of people with no edits, for example. Or that
the welcome messages are progressively standardized, with a clear layout for the message
that can be declined with the users' language preferences when they are declared.
Sure, there is no point in linking me again to the five pillar, but a link to some key
pages might still be useful.
In any case I cannot think of it as really important, and it is to me less important than
other issues related to the SUL interface.
Right in these days one of my friends that I registered years ago or that was already
registered (in any case a very minor contributor, with only a superficial involvement on
wiki platforms) received one of this welcome message in one "non-western
language". He/She found it funny.
I probably have very tolerant friends... good for me! But so far I still feel that this is
a problem only for a small fraction on mid-term and long-term users than for the rest of
the world. I believe that if you make an extensive research these messages might have no
effect (especially if left by bot), they probably have some effect if they are part of a
human interaction, and there is a minority who will disagree with them strongly. Based on
the human interactions and experiences in my life at the workplace, I kinda suspect that
for many of these people this could be also their general attitude in other fields.
Don't get me wrong, I am concerned by the abuse of psychometric and personal data on
modern internet platform, I'll do whatever I could to prevent it that's why I
really don't understand why these messages given by an open and linear process are
such a big deal per se. To me it's like overthinking something quite superficial and
that's unfortunately rarely in the interest of taking care of the real big deal, such
as e.g. your personal metadata being sold to big conglomerates without your "active
permission". So are my friends, and, surprise surpirse, they don't care about
these welcome messages too.
Il Mercoledì 24 Gennaio 2018 4:41, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
FYI for those on WIkimedia-l who may be interested, conversation about this
matter is ongoing. I am waiting a response from WMF Legal, and there may be
others who have opened their own lines of inquiry.
If I don't receive a reply from WMF Legal that I feel is satisfactory, or
if I don't receive one at all, then I plan to set up an RfC about this
matter.
Pine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro/Bright_Places>
On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Vi to <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm scared of the solutions that will
"fix" this.
I expect something as dramatically useful as the removal of "unblock this
IP" button for IPs caught by autoblocks of registered users.
Vito
2018-01-01 22:46 GMT+01:00 Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
I have created
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183876 and am pinging
Legal to request a review of this matter.
Happy new year,
Pine
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