Dear Jan,

Personally, I haven’t been particularly annoyed by the amount of “spam” to this list.

To me, a “reactive” moderation approach is absolutely fine to me. List admins could just let senders know after the fact that off-topic messages are not welcome.

Senders known to post mainly unrelated stuff can be put on individual moderation.

So, the current practice as you describe it, looks perfect to me.

Cheers,

Beat

From: Jan Ainali <ainali.jan@gmail.com>
Sent: Sonntag, 19. September 2021 18:21
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikidata] Re: Change list policy for call for papers postings?

Beat, do you suggest that all messages should be moderated?

Because right now it is not, and I was hoping that we could keep like that and just ask people to not spam the list (and if they do, put them individually on moderation).

Jan Ainali

Den sön 19 sep. 2021 kl 18:14 skrev Estermann Beat <beat.estermann@bfh.ch>:

Dear all,

If there is an obvious thematic link to the topic of the list, then let the message through; if not, discard it; if in doubt, ask the sender to clarify the link.

This should go for any message sent to the list; there is no need for any specific rules regarding CfPs, event announcements, etc.

My 2 cents,

Beat

From: Nicolas VIGNERON <vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com>
Sent: Sonntag, 19. September 2021 14:09
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikidata] Re: Change list policy for call for papers postings?

Hi,

Maybe not a full ban (or maybe, I wouldn't be against it) but at least some clear rules to avoid these spam.

My 2 cents:

An example of mail that should absolutely be avoided (and not just on this mailing list) is when a similar mail is sent several times in a short timespan. We had almost the same mail sent in 2 days this week ! (not to blame this person in particular, this is not the first time it happens and it's bad communication).

Also, senders should strive to make an effort to tell us how the call is related and/or could benefit to/from Wikidata (very often it's unclear, we shouldn't have to guess why we are receiving these calls).

Cheers, ~nicolas

Le dim. 19 sept. 2021 à 12:57, Luca Martinelli [Sannita] <martinelliluca@gmail.com> a écrit :

Back on point, please.

In regards to calls for papers, do we want to ban them altogether, to
set standards to allow some of them, or leave them be as they are now?

L.
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