It may or may not be a coincidence, but today I heard a similar complaint from somebody who occasionally edits in Hebrew, and was freaked out by a welcome message that was sent after he simply read a page in the French Wikipedia.
As Jonathan says, even if it is a privacy issue, it's not really a new one, because user creation logs have been public for a long time; it may just be more visible because of the bots. And again, at a more appropriate time: very happy new year to all! בתאריך 29 בדצמ׳ 2017 11:21, "John Erling Blad" <jeb...@gmail.com> כתב: > Users on other projects are complaining about the welcome messages at > arwiki. A bot at that project are welcoming people that has no activity at > that project at all. The bot operator claims the activity is valid, but I > can't see that this is a well-behaving bot at all.[1] > > I suspect the bot is welcoming every user it can find, but using user > accounts from central login and not users that has local contributions at > arwiki. > > Can someone shut down the bot until the user fix the spam problem. > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Meno25#Welcome_messages > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
