[Foundation-l] Board election spamming

John Vandenberg jayvdb at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 10:32:22 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Cormac Lawler<cormaggio at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:05 AM, <pbeaudette at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry you got an email that bothered you.  Trust me, we try to make
>> sure no one is bothered by them.  Sometimes people fall through the cracks,
>> and I'm sorry that was the case here and in a few other cases.
>
>
> I'm supposedly one who fell through the cracks. <shrug>
>
> Have to say though, I was impressed by being invited to vote in elections
> for the board, "which operates projects such as Wikiversity". I don't know
> how you can specify a person's main project in this script (nor do I
> need/want to know) - but just to give praise where praise is due. :-)

Well spotted!  I missed it.

The email to "John Vandenberg" mentioned "Wikipedia", but the email to
"JVbot" said "Wikisource".

My home wiki is metawiki, so I think it is using highest edit count to
pin me as a Wikipedian.

--
John Vandenberg



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