On 26.06.2015 01:50, Samuel Klein wrote:
This is such a delightful experience.
I have received this kind of email too. No,*this is not delightful at
all*. This kind of email bores me, like many other Wikipedians (see
I still wonder what made a bot think I speak French? Surely, a few minor
edits on fr.wp can't be the trigger?
(well, I had two years at school, but I barely remember enough to identify
the language...)
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:42 AM Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting viewpoint,
Interesting viewpoint, Emmanuel! I am always fascinated to know what others
think I might be interested in, even if the other is just a bot. Like Sam
I was delighted, and I might even be prompted to do a translation (though
not one of the ones they suggested, but an article which I made myself and
Interesting, I figured I received the mail because of joining translation
projects. It seems that it's enough to have made a single edit in both
language wikipedias in the last year.
I hope you will do this in both directions for each language pair (both
suggestions from FR -- EN and from EN --
I strongly disagree that this is spamming. Like others have mentioned, I
was not offended by the email (though I wasn't delighted) by it either, I
think it is a reasonable attempt to encourage editors to put some efforts
into languages other than English.
Plus it is easy to unsubscribe from the
Spamming - a question what the e-mail function of WP is ment for.
I was very surprised to get the request though my French is limited, I
hardly ever edited on fr.WP, and the suggested topics have totally nothing
to do with what I do on Wikipedia. So I do think that the mail was not
quite
Hi everyone,
Thank you for your feedback. It's really appreciated. My responses below,
all in one-batch to avoid many emails to the list. Sorry if it's too long
in advance.
2015-06-25 16:50 GMT-07:00 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
This is such a delightful experience. Whoever is working on
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Juergen Fenn jf...@gmx.net wrote:
Dear Leila,
thank you for elaborating how this mailing came about.
I would like to address the ethical aspect of your project.
In saying
For the purposes of this research, we are
taking the following approach: we take
Leila - great responses, thank you.
On Jun 26, 2015 1:28 PM, Juergen Fenn jf...@gmx.net wrote:
you certainly leave it to the editor whether or not to take action and
actually translate an article you have suggested.
However, I think a threshold is crossed here with the Wikimedia
Foundation
One concern I would raise with a straight opt-out system is simply
that, as someone who received the email (and was incredibly confused.
I don't speak French and had never heard of the underlying project) I
/am/ interested in research projects. I'm just not interested in
research projects in,
Dear Leila,
thank you for elaborating how this mailing came about.
I would like to address the ethical aspect of your project.
In saying
For the purposes of this research, we are
taking the following approach: we take a
more global approach to identify missing
content, rank them by
2015-06-26 20:40 GMT+02:00 Leila Zia le...@wikimedia.org:
Hi everyone,
the way the algorithm makes the final recommendations is language agnostic
Obviously. :-)
I'm sorry if the recommendation has disappointed you. As mentioned in the
recommendation email, you will be in one of the two
If I may make one suggestion, have a look at people's language preferences in
the wikis concerned. My assumption is that if you know two languages well
enough to translate between them you are unlikely to have opted for a different
language for system messages. I have edits in lots of different
Oh cool, you offer free French courses? Did I understand the e-Mail
correctly?
-- Rillke
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