[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 7/3/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:
> It is unnecessary and not a very good idea.  If he does this on every other
> wiki, I will not complain.  (But I doubt he will do that.)

I already started on commons yesterday. It should be done today.

I have produced a list of eligible voters on German, and sent it to
Kurt. ... However, I don't personally have the German writing skills
to write an inspirational email in German, nor can I reply to the
questions which would result. I think that it is also somewhat less
important because there has already been an effort there to increase
participation on that project, and German's relative turn out is
already ~4x better than English's.

I can't make lists for the other projects because I do not have access
to copies of their databases. I did try, however. It would take me
longer than the election has remaining to complete such lists via the
web interface.

I understand that the Election com know how many eligible users there
are on each project (or at least
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/jump would indicate
such), so perhaps they can easily provide the information.