Hi Violeta,
I just wanted to add that, although I agree with your friendly suggestion,
I have one of my own:
Your email advertising the conference does not reference Wikidata,
Mediawiki or Wikimedia at any point.
I understand that If you're posting this email to many places, it takes
time to customize it for every community, but at the same time I can also
understand how it is perceived as advertisement because it is not clear at
all what the connection to the people on the mailing list is and why this
could be interesting to them.
So my suggestion is to have the generic body of the email stay the same,
and have an introductory paragraph at the start of the email that is fitted
to the people you're addressing on each list. It could include past
participation of the community or point out relevant talks in the current
program and point out in what other ways the conference could be
interesting to the people reading the email (networking, meetups, work
groups etc).
I hope this helps avoid future misunderstandings.
All the best for your conference
- Charlie
Am Di., 4. Sep. 2018 um 14:30 Uhr schrieb Violeta Ilik <
ilik.violeta(a)gmail.com>gt;:
Thank you for addressing this issue.
Yes, members of the wikidata community have participated in Force11 events
in the past and also this year:
http://sched.co/F7u7
Members of the Force11 actually visited the Wikidata headquarters last
year in Berlin when our 2017 conference was held there. See that program
for reference:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DH8FfDOGOqzYpCjVJK4aZcVq0vk4d-77fx7…
A friendly suggestion: please look up the event, in this case Force11 [
https://www.force11.org/meetings/force2018], before sending emails that
contain suggestions to blacklist people.
Violeta
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 8:03 AM, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
Hello all,
Lydia and I, as moderators of this list, are filtering the announcements
about conferences, keeping only the ones that have a link to Wikidata or
could interest the broad community. The criteria of having to pay for the
conference or not is not taken in account.
In that case, the conference includes open data in its topic, and some
members of the Wikicite group have been there in the past, that's why we
thought it would be interesting for the Wikidata community.
However, we don't tolerate spam, multiple-reminders for the same event,
and we try to reduce the noise as much as possible for the ~1200
subscribers of this mailing-list.
Thanks for your understanding,
Léa
On 30 August 2018 at 18:57, Violeta Ilik <ilik.violeta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Are you talking about the email I sent to
register for the Force11
conference?
Violeta
On Thursday, August 30, 2018, Jérémie Roquet <jroquet(a)arkanosis.net>
wrote:
2018-08-30 16:43 GMT+02:00 Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
> I'm going to ask the opinion of the Wikidata list moderators here.
This
> email appears to be a soloicitation to pay for attendance to an
event, which
> I would consider to be a junk email and would treat accordingly
including by
> blacklisting the sender. Do the Wikidata list moderators agree?
I didn't want to be the first to raise what I wasn't sure to be an
issue, but I feel the same.
Best regards,
--
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