There are many million users registered in central auth. Most have not edited anywhere, and never even visited ar.wikipedia.org. welcoming these is actually harmful in a demonstrable way: readers will be notified of this useless welcome by email, or the notification tool. If this were multiplied across our
On 29 Dec 2017 10:20, "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.
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