[Foundation-l] Pointing out to an oddity

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I do have a profile on probably all Wikipedias and Wiktionaries... I would
be positively aghast if I am spammed everywhere. It was a bad idea at the
time and imho it still is a bad idea to mail all people urging them to get
an interest in the voting process for a new board member..
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard <
pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The whole point of this excercise
> > is that it was not technically *unfeasible* for a single actor on the
> > english language Wikipedia to mass spam all the editors on that
> > wikipedia (and with a generous offer to help - but not initiate -
> > efforts on other languages).
> >
>
> Certainly, but doing so on 700 or so more wikis using the
> Special:Emailuser interface has some complications. For example, it
> would result in many editors getting multiple notification emails if
> they have several eligible accounts with different names (which is
> common). For another, none of us have the time to do it by loading
> Special:Emailuser for every eligible user (unless you're offering to
> do so).
>
> The ideal solution is to send a single notification email to a list of
> the confirmed addresses belonging to eligible voters, filtered to
> remove duplicates. This is easy and efficient and resolves the above
> problems, but we need help from a system administrator to do so since
> we don't have access to those email addresses. We have a system
> administrator who will generate the list of eligible accounts, so
> getting the list of emails should be relatively easy (although we may
> not see them ourselves, depending on privacy considerations).
>
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is (*frankly*) not good enough.
>
> This frankly is good enough. We're not obliged to even try; we are
> only volunteers serving in our free time, and sending email
> notification is purely an extra service beyond what we were asked to
> do. You're welcome to mention any suggestions, but I think starting a
> conversation like that is inappropriate.
>
> --
> Yours cordially,
> Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
>
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