[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

Fri Aug 19 15:32:11 UTC 2011

Hi,

Maybe we shouldn't e-mail every user every time there is a vote.

There has never been a run that didn't cause any problems and like
Andrew was saying elsewhere they know the system doesn't check for
global blocks and multible blocks.

So there will be a lot of false positives. And a lot of people will
get spam because they did create a account and did some edits...
People that think Wikimedia is sending spam will leave instead of
vote.

There is already a global site notice. This e-mails was't needed...

2011/8/19, Andrew Garrett <agarrett op wikimedia.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just started sending out over 750,000 emails to folks who are
> eligible to vote in our Wikimedia Referendum. I've learned from past
> mailouts in trying to exclude more bots, multiple accounts and folks
> who've already voted. However, if you receive an email which doesn't
> apply to you (for example, if you're not eligible to vote, or you've
> requested to be excluded from such mailouts), or if there's a problem
> with the email that you receive (for example, it's in the wrong
> language), I've set up a page [1] where you can report it. Remember
> that you can always opt out from all future mailings [2].
>
> I'm hoping that having a central page for this information will help
> in investigating the issues associated with errant mail, and allow
> future mail to be better targetted.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
>
> —Andrew
>
> [1]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Email/False_positives
> [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_nomail_list
>
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> Andrew Garrett
> Wikimedia Foundation
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>
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