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

[teun spaans]

If you ran it on commons, why didnt i receive it?

On 7/3/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/3/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...and, presumably, you'd be more than happy to run the process on any
> > other project if someone provided you with a local translation of the
> > necessary text? The checking process ought to be pretty much portable.
>
> Yes, and in fact I've run it on commons.   I also, as mentioned, sent
> a list of users over to a dewiki person I know.  Both were actions I
> took before anyone complained.
>
> I did not run queries against other communities because the toolserver
> copies of them went down before I had a chance.  Someone with access
> to the live databases could easily make the userlists... but I'm
> willing to bet that no one else will want to touch this with a 10-ft
> pole.  :)
>
> > I think perhaps this might be a rather sensible thing to try and do
> > from the outset, next time, on as many projects as practical. It
> > allows a much less ambiguous explanation than one line in sitenotice -
> > it's almost impossible to have a good succinct explanation there which
> > doesn't provide scope for misunderstanding or make it look like
> > *everyone* is eligible.
>
> Yes. Exactly. This is my thought, and it was one of my recommendations
> after last year. ... although at the time I didn't quite appreciate
> how much of a turnout problem we had.  Nor did I have any idea how
> much good it would do then, but I know now.
>
> For effectiveness, if we were to do this, we would probably want to do
> it mid election rather than at the beginning. We need to give people
> enough time to consider the options, but I fear that if you give
> people two weeks notice they might well forget.
>
> We could possibly supplement an early delivered email which will reach
> people who do not log in every day, with a dynamic notice that appears
> on a non-cached page, such as watchlists, which says "You are eligible
> to vote in the board election, but you have not done so yet."  I think
> the biggest complication with that will be making it not show when
> someone has voted from another project... I guess this will just be
> something else we put off while waiting for SUL.
>
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