Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-20 Thread MZMcBride
Andrew Garrett wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: Solution 2: Use the api.php to post to the user talk page. * Has lots of failure cases: ** Connection error/Timeout Try again. ** May need to create user account separately

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-12 Thread Tei
On 12 April 2012 00:00, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/04/12 23:52, MZMcBride wrote: Now, whether for your purposes using the API is the best option, I don't know. But for my purposes, the API has been wonderful. The only major hiccup I hit was a few weeks ago when database lag

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-12 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: Solution 2: Use the api.php to post to the user talk page. * Has lots of failure cases: ** Connection error/Timeout Try again. ** May need to create user account separately Create a global account for the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-11 Thread Platonides
On 10/04/12 23:52, MZMcBride wrote: Now, whether for your purposes using the API is the best option, I don't know. But for my purposes, the API has been wonderful. The only major hiccup I hit was a few weeks ago when database lag spiked to a crazy level and the script couldn't get past it.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-11 Thread Terry Chay
Niklas, On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Niklas Laxström wrote: Solution 3: ''Suggest another solution.'' https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications) Unfortunately, this won't see real headway until June/July timeframe:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-11 Thread MZMcBride
Platonides wrote: On 10/04/12 23:52, MZMcBride wrote: Now, whether for your purposes using the API is the best option, I don't know. But for my purposes, the API has been wonderful. The only major hiccup I hit was a few weeks ago when database lag spiked to a crazy level and the script

[Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-10 Thread Niklas Laxström
TL;DR: we are looking for solution that can post messages to user talk pages on any WMF wiki. We (l10n team) are working on TranslationNotifications extension [1], which allows translators to sign up and choose how they want notifications of new translation requests to be delivered to them. One

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-10 Thread Platonides
Launch a pywikipediabot script? That's not too 'elegant', but avoids reinventing the wheel... ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-10 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxst...@gmail.com wrote: Solution 1: Use the LoadBalancer to open connection to the other wiki. * Does WikiPage support editing pages on another databases like this? * This way we culd bypass things like blocked user/protected page

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interwiki talk page posting

2012-04-10 Thread MZMcBride
Niklas Laxström wrote: TL;DR: we are looking for solution that can post messages to user talk pages on any WMF wiki. I wrote a solution to this problem a year or so ago: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery. It's currently used by a few Wikimedia Foundation projects and a few