[WikiEN-l] Rambot

Wed Dec 15 10:27:39 UTC 2004

I agree that were this to become common practice it
would get annoying, but in this case I think it was
appropriate. Someone wants to use editor's material in
another project, and is required by the gfdl to seek
their consent. He is doing this in pretty much the
only reasonable way I can think of.

If the licensing on WP wasn't broken, he wouldn't have
to do it. The sooner we fix the license the sooner we
can be done with all of this.

Mark

--- Fennec Foxen <fennec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello. I'd just like to draw attention to
>   
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ram-Man#Spambot
> a discussion about whether Ram-Man should be
> permitted to use rambot
> to send unsolicited bulk messages (soliciting
> participation in a
> "dual-licensing drive") to thousands of user-talk
> pages. The bot is
> currently blocked indefinitely, pending the
> resolution of this issue.
> 
> Ram-Man seems to believe that an implicit community
> consens exists and
> approves of his use of the bot in this fashion.
> Currently, he claims
> to have "over 70% support" of users who responded to
> the message,
> although I believe this figure to be skewed by the
> "users who
> responded" part. I therefore would appreciate it if
> otherwise
> uninterested individuals provide Ram-Man with a more
> concrete measure
> of the level of community support which exists
> regarding this message.
> 
> Others have expressed concerns regarding the
> precedent which this sets
> for distribution of unsolicited user-talk messages,
> and suggest that a
> more concrete policy be formed to deal with this
> form of userpage
> spam.
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