On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > I like that concept. I try to invite new users are in the geographic area of > our meetup group. If I think they need a helpful hint I add it to the > welcome message. I'd really like to automate the process. Is there a way to > automate sending messages to all new users or do you have to send each on > individually?
There is no *official* API for messages (apparently, for a reason). A few years ago, Andrzej Zaborowski (balrog-kun / sir-mapalot) did send such welcome messages to Polish newcomers - to every fourth mapper, based on (uid mod 4). It was a form of an A/B test, though for results you would have to contact him. If I recall correctly, he told it was statistically insignificant with respect to users' later engagement. I did receive such greeting messsage back in 2012 and probably it helped me to engage with the community (I jumped straight into IRC to ask some questions). Different countries have different main forms of contact (forum, mailing list, IRC, FB, VK and so on) Michał _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
