Looping in the Arabic Wikipedia mailing list.
FYI
Samir Elsharbaty
Communications|Wikimedia Foundation
On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 5:02 AM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've usually just don't bother with them, but
lately I got complaints about
this specific bot, and the bot operator neglect doing anything with the
problem. That is why I raise the issue, as there are no other forum where
users from one project can make a complaint about misbehaving users on
another project.
Given the response from the bot operator I would say I don't have a good
feeling about this "welcome" at all. It is like those scam emails where you
are greeted in full name. It is creepy…
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:19 AM, 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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