[Commons-l] Automatic messages to users: guessing userpreferred language

[David Gerard]

On 06/10/2007, Alex Nordstrom <lx at se.linux.org> wrote:

> What? We have a template encouraging this behaviour? English, Polish and
> Spanish Wikipedia are not Wikimedia Commons. Demanding that Commons
> discussions take place there is about as reasonable as asking
> notification on one's Facebook page. It's a long-standing principle on
> Wikimedia projects that discouraging use of one's talk page (and that
> includes diverting such use elsewhere) is unacceptable.


Er, no. Commons is a *service project* for those wikis. It's not for Facebook.


- d.