User talk:Jessepfrancis

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--Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:37, 29 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Dear Pi Zero, thank you for the welcome! I have been around here for a while (I think it's been almost 8years - since 2008, just that I am welcomed only now), and was once a bureaucrat in one of the local language Wikibooks for almost four years. Just that I changed my username (it was Atjesse)! And thank you for your help in IRC yesterday, I'm done with Wikifying it and waiting for Sunday. I thought less-interacting community was just the plague in local Wikibooks', well, this is comforting! ;)

Apart from that - can the job of welcoming be given to some bots as they have it in Wikipedia? (I hope you are watching my page, as it's mentioned in your talk page!)--Jessepfrancis (discuss • contribs) 15:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I gathered you'd been around a while. :-)


 * Certainly it would be technically possible for a bot to welcome folks. To be honest, I don't really like it, though.  It feels impersonal; lacks the personal touch.  I believe the great importance of the wikimedian sisterhood is only indirectly about education, despite the Foundation's "mission" statement: I think the central point is about human beings &mdash; the vast population of individual thinking beings &mdash; keeping control of the information flow.  Over-automating things is therefore counterproductive (I'd like to see some strategic changes to just how Wikidata interacts with other sisters), and while there are times when bots do make sense, I want to minimize them as much as possible.  Besides the fact that bots are one more thing to potentially go wrong.  On English Wikinews we do have a welcome bot, but that's because our welcome message is really important for contributors; although one suspects people don't read it anyway, so the effort goes to waste.  Even on English Wikinews, though, it's not that uncommon to manually welcome folks, because lots of users who haven't contributed to that particular project have had wikimedia accounts since before the welcome bot was put in place.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 18:25, 29 April 2016 (UTC)