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@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@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@gmail.com:
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@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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