It may or may not be a coincidence, but today I heard a similar complaint from somebody who occasionally edits in Hebrew, and was freaked out by a welcome message that was sent after he simply read a page in the French Wikipedia.
As Jonathan says, even if it is a privacy issue, it's not really a new one, because user creation logs have been public for a long time; it may just be more visible because of the bots.
And again, at a more appropriate time: very happy new year to all!
בתאריך 29 בדצמ׳ 2017 11:21, "John Erling Blad" jeblad@gmail.com כתב:
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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