Talk:Requests for comment/Welcoming policy

were the affected communities informed?

Hi, I might have overlooked something, but were the communities affected informed about this RfC? Ghilt (talk) 08:23, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

All registered users at any wiki can be affected by welcome messages to users with no edits. There are currently 1046 wikis at Special:SiteMatrix although a few are closed for editing. I made the proposed policy but not the RfC and I don't know practice about notifications. I only posted a notification to my home wiki (which is also the largest) at w:Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 198#Global welcoming policy. If "affected communities" means wikis which currently make widespread welcome messages to users without edits then I think we would get biased participation if we only try to find and notify those who make controversial posts and not the recipients who are often at other wikis. Trying to notify around 1000 wikis seems excessive. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:09, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I think it's justified for an RfC like this given that they are the projects that would be most affected. MassMessage should make this straightforward. Leaderboard (talk) 12:29, 13 December 2024 (UTC)