I strongly disagree that this is spamming. Like others have mentioned, I was not offended by the email (though I wasn't "delighted") by it either, I think it is a reasonable attempt to encourage editors to put some efforts into languages other than English.

Plus it is easy to unsubscribe from the research mailing list.

Jim

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson@kiwix.org> wrote:

On 26.06.2015 01:50, Samuel Klein wrote:

This is such a delightful experience.

I have received this kind of email too. "No",*this is not delightful at all*. This kind of email bores me, like many other Wikipedians (see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro_du_jour#Wikimedia_Foundation_se_lance_dans_le_spam).

AFAIK I don't have asked to received that kind of email, and the definition of what you do is "spamming" (and please don't answer to this by talking about the "opt-out" option, "opt-in" is the respectful way of doing). Can you please stop this immediately?

FYI, the Wikipedia in French has an article evaluation program (like on Wikipedia in English) based on wikiprojects, so honestly I think they already know pretty well where are the weakness without the help of a robot: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:%C3%89valuation/Index

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