I still wonder what made a bot think I speak French? Surely, a few minor edits on fr.wp can't be the trigger?
(well, I had two years at school, but I barely remember enough to identify the language...)

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:42 AM Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting viewpoint, Emmanuel! I am always fascinated to know what others think I might be interested in, even if the "other" is just a bot. Like Sam I was delighted, and I might even be prompted to do a translation (though not one of the ones they suggested, but an article which I made myself and is in the same general area). I disagree by the way, that each Wikipedia has to decide on their own what is "encyclopedia worthy" in that language. I think the projects need to start trusting each other more and be open to *aggressive* translation efforts as a way to educate new (multi-lingual) editors, and also to promote a neutral point of view. Let's wikibomb everybody aggressively with translation suggestions!

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:29 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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